Lots of things about news consumption and production make me angry from time to time, but the "I'm going to wave my hand and casually dismiss 'the internet'" move is a pretty big catch-all guaranteed to do it every time.
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Very few legit news sites actually operate this way anymore, and haven't for years. There was an unfortunate blip while we all sorted out lanes and where the bars would be. If you're still coming across them regularly (there are always exceptions of course), check your news diethttps://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1077767338836017152 …
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In fact MOST news sites and the people who work at them learned long ago that twitter outrage is a pretty crappy measure of traffic, and chasing it on its own merits is a dumb and exhausting waste of time that doesn't even translate to pageviews or engagement or anything else.
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Key word being "legit" news sites. As someone who has google alerts for key people I cover, I assure you there's a lot of garbage still going up and then being shared across social media
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A distinction that, oddly, was left out of your tweet. Meanwhile I can assure you that even legit news sites -- yours and mine included -- are in some way dependent on good SEO.
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The only time I encounter this phenomena are comic book movie or pop culture sites. (Is Thanos a psychopath or sociopath? Breaking down every second of US.) I'm OK with that.
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