Post AlCVT64uxY6YHCaKJM by futurebird@sauropods.win
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(DIR) Post #AlCVT5PnQRDADfLUDQ by KateConnors@masto.ai
2024-08-21T17:23:48Z
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@mastodonmigration @macbraughton @jztusk @GottaLaff @blogdiva I'm going to push back on this a little. Not a NYT subscriber, but I used to be. It was a Times article in 2016 profiling declared Trump voters that showed me a world beyond my liberal bubble that turned out to be an astonishing 40-ish percent of the nation. It makes my blood boil to read so-called conservative opinions, but without knowing they're out there, I'm utterly disarmed.
(DIR) Post #AlCVT64uxY6YHCaKJM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-21T19:00:32Z
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@KateConnors @mastodonmigration @macbraughton @jztusk @GottaLaff @blogdiva One can describe conservative opinions and reasoning without adopting conservative framing of a large portion of the content.
(DIR) Post #AlCW0JBrEM4sUyfRUO by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2024-08-21T13:16:30Z
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Wow, NYT. Really?Via Andrew Weissmann:The NYT editors are out of control.Elizabeth McLaughlin:The sneering tone of this headline from the nytimes says it all. I'm so tired of mainstream media. So damn tired.
(DIR) Post #AlCW0JiTH6AK87vUK8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-08-21T19:06:34Z
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@GottaLaff Hey, Laffy the online and print editions had different headlines, the online one being much more of a bit of right wing click bait. (Which might explain why people I know in NYC IRL don't know what I'm talking about when I say the NY Times is going off the rails. )Could this be an online only trend? (Doesn't make it right.)
(DIR) Post #AlCWsUbB1xBpWDLang by CuriousMagpie@mastodon.social
2024-08-21T19:16:21Z
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@futurebird Ah, that explains a conversation I had with one of my walking friends the other day. She’s a retired historian/academic in her late 80s and does nothing online.
(DIR) Post #AlCfxHgzLHeGWfQQim by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2024-08-21T20:58:03Z
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@futurebird Wow! Yeah, that would explain it!
(DIR) Post #AlCgBqDnlBqffdiN60 by noondlyt@mastodon.social
2024-08-21T21:00:38Z
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@futurebird @GottaLaff OK, that is really interesting and somewhat nauseating.
(DIR) Post #AlCggo4dnNLpzECANc by darthstar@mastodon.online
2024-08-21T21:06:18Z
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@futurebird @GottaLaff It could be they lean towards click-bait headlines because it drives eyeballs to their site. But yeah, it's still an asshole thing for them to do. Print edition headline is fine.
(DIR) Post #AlChhmdMjaoflST1W4 by pbloem@sigmoid.social
2024-08-21T21:17:38Z
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@futurebird @GottaLaff They A/B test their headlines in the online version. It could be that only some people saw this. This is a pretty nasty practice, especially for a supposedly reputable newspaper, since pretty much the only thing you can optimize for is "engagement". In other words, it just leads to blind clickbait.https://blog.tjcx.me/p/new-york-times-ab-testing
(DIR) Post #AlCidGx6gSH2Il775s by fmhilton@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-08-21T21:28:02Z
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@futurebird @GottaLaff I personally think that because their on-line presence is far bigger than their print, they're changing the headlines to push their message.. Which is a bad thing to do because the on-line people are getting tired of the Times changing headlines and lying about it.
(DIR) Post #AlDMSBBbmIZrOpA6Pw by karppinen@mastodon.online
2024-08-22T04:54:15Z
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@futurebird @GottaLaff newspapers often have automatic a/b testing of online headlines—they write a bunch and the system converges on the one that gets the most rage-clicks