That Apple News is running everything and that bad headlines are going to get clicked on or ignored by the everyone people who all read Apple News on their phones.
I said I admired the click bait game, because of how the article was structured on Politico’s site (with the lede right below it prior to the article so that hate clicks would be pwned). I didn’t comment about the headline, because it’s obviously a dumb headline but very easy to see through if you actually watched even a second of the impeachment hearing. I knew it was intended as a joke before I even clicked the article.
Because as blatantly bad at it as they are, they understand that 40-50% of the country is going to blatantly eat it up… And they know exactly how to package it for them.
Counterpoint: People said the same thing after the Iraq War. We had a thread called “The Tragic Death of the Republican Party”. I saw a tweet the other day where a lecturer said that his college students have near universally never heard of Abu Ghraib. I’m 39. How many of my American contemporaries do you think could explain what Iran-Contra was or who was to blame? We’ll definitely learn from history THIS time, tho.
JT’s point is that the vast majority of people are not clicking on the links, let alone watching the impeachment hearings. Most people get their news from headlines and occasionally stumble into 10 minutes of the evening news while waiting for the weather forecast or 5 minutes of CNN or Fox when the game or Dancing With the Spicers are in a commercial.
I’m not talking about Yahoo because I use it. I do use msn. I’m talking about Yahoo because it’s a mainstream way a lot of older people get news (the demo that needs to be swayed). CNN also falls into that bracket sad to say. I don’t ever watch CNN. CNN is actually a living breathing part of the Ukraine scandal, which is awesome (they were going to help Trump commit an impeachable offense without question showing how ‘great’ they are). They were totally looking forward to taping the hostage video. Can’t believe I forgot about AOLOL.
Maybe when they write that stuff it’s intended as a dogwhistle. ‘Here’s that right wing propaganda place you should be watching that’s running one channel in nearly 50 percent of the country’s local news plus one channel in almost all the rural places’.
I’m not disagreeing with that. I’m disagreeing with the premise that most people are getting their headlines from Apple News. I’m sure there’s a news app on my Android phone, but I have never once used it.
I haven’t looked at AOLOL since the days they charged $20 an hour for restricted web access. I was surprised to see them with such a strong headline, though I will confess that wasn’t the first headline in the carousel.
