Media: When “news” stories include affiliate links
When a news story contains numerous affiliate sales links, is this really news anymore?
When a news story contains numerous affiliate sales links, is this really news anymore?
The headline takes off to the races with hysteria and greatly exaggerates the findings of a study.
The spin began with “deadly”, “life threatening”, “catastrophic” speculation, then followed that afterwards with “It wasn’t that bad”, and stories saying the tropical storm was 100% caused by the Global Boiling ClimateCrisis, and then a few adding historical context of past tropical storms and even a hurricane.
What was the cause of the devastating Maui fires? At this point, no one knows. But media has no trouble speculating!
“Content mills” and “Content Generation” services are becoming the backbone of web “journalism”. 57% of newsroom jobs at newspapers went away from 2008 onwards. What does those people do now? They write stories about that one weird trick that explains why this airport did something to someone… in other words, fluffy filler click-bait articles.