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by EvilBanshee 3945 days ago
Am I the only one who's noticed an uptick in the number of articles with clickbaity/contrarian/generalizing titles coming from the BBC lately?

One look at the current BBC tech news feed[1] shows a few such disappointing titles.

"VIDEO: Is this the end of ads on mobiles?" "Are we addicted to technology?"

1: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml
2 comments
jerf 3945 days ago
I've been noticing a spate of NYT articles lately too that seem to be summed up by "Every Common Sense Thing You Know Is Wrong Because Some Academic Somewhere Ran A Study That Could Be Read That Way." Presumably to be followed up by "Now That Somebody Did Something Different We're Here To Tell You How That Went Wrong, Too".

Maybe it's just that I'm 36 and old and crotchety but is anyone else getting tired of reading the "Every Last Thing Western Civilization Thinks Or Does Is Completely Wrong" article? And I don't just mean the "big issues", but, stuff like this article, too. How you queue up... WRONG. How you drink water... WRONG. How you play on the playground... WRONG. How speed limits work... WRONG.

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princeb 3945 days ago
this particular headline seems fine though - there is a question for which most people have existing opinions about and some rationale for believing so. and then the article engages some of these notions. conversely if this article were to give the answer in the headline right away 'LIFO queues may be more optimal' one could possibly take the reasons presented at face value without understanding (or even seeing) why it is counter intuitive.
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