Could start by at least listing Professorozone in the canceled subscriptions.
How exactly do you propose a reporter determine the number of cancellations?
FanciestPants@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
How exactly do you propose a reporter determine the number of cancellations?
Could start by at least listing Professorozone in the canceled subscriptions.
fantasyocean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
If said reporter can’t present quantifiable data/evidence, then maybe they shouldn’t write the article?
Octavio@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Or at least not write it with that headline. Engagement bait has ruined journalism.
fantasyocean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I guess, but inflammatory and sensationalist headlines have always existed.
Octavio@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Certainly, but they at least were confined to supermarket tabloids and other fringe publications. This is coming from Newsweek, which, believe it or not, was once a respected news magazine.
A journalism professor in the 1980s would have had veins bulging out of his forehead if a student’s headline asserted a claim that was not substantiated by any facts in the story.