News.com.au Has Gone Clickbait Crazy! You Won't Believe What Happens Next

Daabido on 04/03/2019 - 21:18

Here's a sample of today's headlines;

Bizarre lies of…
Trainwreck interviews…
Tricky banking hack…
You'll never listen to … the same way again
NRL finals bombshell 'gimmick' slammed
Internet loses it over WA's 'hot cop'
Jess come clean on…
'Toxic' bride slammed by viewers
Crazy things people flush down the loo
'Unfathomably' selfish or just a prank?
Sneaky hidden camera nabbing hundreds
Sport loses it over…
'Holy s***'; 2.3m freak blows minds
Tangled web of lies
Alarming battle behind viral naked photo
I let my friends choose my boyfriend
… bizarre bed selfie slammed
The Rock surprises Dad with ultimate gift
'He had his hand on my leg'
'Insanely stupid' travel photo slammed

and many, many more.

Personally I don't think I can stand it anymore. What do you think?

Poll Options

  • 52
    I find clickbait headlines annoying on a 'news' site.
  • 78
    It has always been this way.
  • 31
    What are you doing visiting news.com.au anyway?
  • 1
    Clickbait? What clickbait?
  • 5
    You won't believe what happens next...
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Comments

  • spackbace on 04/03/2019 - 21:20
    +16

    I want to vote for 1, 2, 3 & 5…

    That site has always been shit

  • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2019 - 21:23

    So what's news?

    • Daabido on 04/03/2019 - 21:25

      Very little it would seem.

      • [Deactivated] on 04/03/2019 - 21:28
        +2

        Nobody likes reading actual reports.

        Source

        • Switchblade88 on 04/03/2019 - 21:30
          +1

          "By the way, Koala Airlines SUCK!"

  • Switchblade88 on 04/03/2019 - 21:29
    +7

    I've turned into my grandfather - I use ABC News (although not on AM radio the way he likes it!)

    I've attempted to train my Google News apps to avoid paywalled or trashy sites, ABC is one of the few left that seems to rise to the top of the toilet bowl that is 'news'. Still can't delete the Sports section though.

    If you've got any quality, free news sources - local or international - please let us know.

    • Daabido on 04/03/2019 - 21:39

      Of all the ABC stations on the AM dial, Radio National is my pick. The local station is not quite brain-rotting, but not far off. The 24 hour news one feels like they've had one too many coffees.

    • Wystri Warrick on 04/03/2019 - 22:22
      +2

      If you've got any quality, free news sources - local or international - please let us know.

      The guardian
      Dear spiegel
      Democracy now
      There's also a Spanish one but I can't remember it's name.

      I really only watch ABC and SBS news, four corners and foreign correspondent are excellent Australian investigative journalism programs.
      Can't believe anybody watches the "investigative journalism" programs ACA and TT…
      I can still remember when channel nine reported the collateral murder video, they claimed the Al-Jazeera journalist carrying his camera was a "terrorist" carrying an "AK-47"…

      We need news to be free, to be independent, free from sponsors, shareholders, advertising and government funding.
      A well informed, educated, healthy and strong population is vital to democracy.
      An uninformed, uneducated, sick and weak population is where democracy fades.

      • Lastchancetosee on 05/03/2019 - 07:51
        +1

        Was it El Pais ? Also The Saturday Paper, independent, Australian, published by Black Inc. Reminds me of the old Nation Review.

    • belongsinforums on 04/03/2019 - 23:28
      +3

      generally anything internationally noteworthy will find its way onto the forums here, or on reddit. i think its unhealthy to trust any one site, though.

    • Speckled Jim on 05/03/2019 - 07:49

      The Atlantic.
      How come the best stuff doesn't need a paywall?

    • terrys on 05/03/2019 - 09:15

      I used to read the Guardian and the Weekly World News to get a balanced view. It was a sad day when the latter started placing a disclaimer on its front page, tho many of its regulars wouldn't have understood it…

  • neo on 04/03/2019 - 21:30
    +1

    I can't stand the bloody popups and ads plaguing that stupid site.

    • Daabido on 04/03/2019 - 21:37
      +1

      Ublock Origin can fix that problem. Now if there was only a plugin to strip out clickbait headlines.

      • neo on 04/03/2019 - 21:50

        Thanks for the recommendation! I assume to only install from Chrome store and not ublock.org?

        • Daabido on 04/03/2019 - 21:54
          +1

          ublock.org is completely unrelated to Ublock Origin. Don't get anything from there. Chrome store is the safe way. Also, make sure it is Ublock Origin, not just uBlock.

      • SnowDragon on 05/03/2019 - 08:21

        Can it fix the auto playing videos on every article?

    • follow on 04/03/2019 - 21:48
      +1

      use brave on mobile

  • follow on 04/03/2019 - 21:46
    +1

    and for their basketball coverage… BEN SIMMONS BEN SIMMONS

  • SydStrand on 04/03/2019 - 21:50
    +8

    It's about 35% MAFS now. It's basically New Idea

  • Agarwal on 04/03/2019 - 21:54
    +4

    I had to stop reading that site because my jaw kept dropping so much it dropped right off.

  • Hardlyworkin on 04/03/2019 - 22:00

    I read news.com, abc and SBS. I find flicking through each gives a better perspective of what is actually news and what the wider public are reading. News.com I think of as an entertainment page.

    I believe reading just one news site gives one a narrow view.

    • Daabido on 04/03/2019 - 22:05
      -1

      I'll have to try out SBS. I always though Murdoch and the other media barons must have been upset that Cnet got the domain news.com.

      Although Cnet is owned by CBS, just like Channel 10.

      Edit: I just tried SBS News. I like it already. I clicked on the article about Jose Ramos-Horta talking foreign aid, because I saw one of his Patek Philippe watches for sale today.
      http://clockmaker.com.au/w/k3638.html

  • djkelly69 on 04/03/2019 - 22:07
    +6

    Seems like 90% of the job of a news.com.au 'journalist' is reading twitter/facebook comments on an 'issue' and cutting and pasting them into an 'article'. Then put the most outrageous one in 'quotes' in the headline.

    • GaryQ on 05/03/2019 - 13:58
      +1

      You forgot reddit

  • Donaldhump on 04/03/2019 - 22:07
    +4

    if you want to read / watch news use abc or sbs, new.com.au is like a woman’s magazine, with out MAFS, nrl scandals, Megan marble stories there would be no news

    • Donaldhump on 04/03/2019 - 22:12
      +1

      Oh and Donald trump stories

    • try2bhelpful on 04/03/2019 - 22:51
      +2

      Those Megan marble stories just keep rolling on.

      • Donaldhump on 05/03/2019 - 07:43

        Yes they seem to go around in circles

  • blackfrancis75 on 04/03/2019 - 22:44

    Before the other sites add editorial content, the bare-bones stories are generally here: https://www.reuters.com/

  • Diji1 on 04/03/2019 - 22:54
    +1

    Consuming news is unhealthy, addictive and leaves the viewer brainwashed from hearing the same untruths endlessly repeated over and over.

    Due to it's addictive nature ceasing to consume news will be quite difficult for most people for the first two or three weeks.

    • spackbace on 04/03/2019 - 23:17

      #votegreens

    • [Deactivated] on 05/03/2019 - 00:28

      Due to it's addictive nature ceasing to consume news will be quite difficult for most people for the first two or three weeks.

      Link to evidence or I call BS

    • RockyRaccoon on 05/03/2019 - 03:20
      +4

      the same untruths endlessly repeated over and over

      Now that’s a bit rich from the local greens candidate….

  • [Deactivated] on 05/03/2019 - 00:22
    +1

    You can probably blame Daily Mail for going down that path early.

  • Tech5 on 05/03/2019 - 00:29
    +2

    I open news.com.au every once in a while for a laugh but would never treat it as serious news.

    If someone wants a recommendation for something worthwhile to read, the new york times is really good and relatively balanced. Very large international section as well. $4 a month

  • shaybisc on 05/03/2019 - 08:15
    +1

    The thing that annoys me about news.com.au besides being a right-wing Murdoch rag is that it appears at the top of my searches almost always. It is not based on my reading habits because I never open them. Is Rupert paying Google to corrupt their search results?

    I have an app -Personal Blocklist- which I've set to block all Murdoch from search results on Google but now I'm using Startpage.com and it doesn't work. So I have a choice of the evil clutches of Google or the evil clutches of Murdoch.

    • papachris on 05/03/2019 - 21:19

      There are various ways of getting entries higher up the Google search tree. You can be sure Murdoch's lot know them all…

  • pantsparty on 05/03/2019 - 08:18
    +1

    News.com.au has been trashier than say Sydney Morning Herald for a fair while now. It is still a good read for celebrity type news but I wouldn't go there for anything more serious. It is still a bit less trashy in its content than Daily Mail however. What you read at any given time depends on what kind of news you feel like reading - it is nice to sometimes read something a bit more light hearted.

  • visca on 05/03/2019 - 08:33

    ABC, Monday evening TV line up is good, and if you're interested in global news add SBS.

  • ozbargainoid on 05/03/2019 - 16:46

    Is it the truth…
    or did you read it on news.com.au

    • Certified Angus on 05/03/2019 - 21:11

      Someone should put that on a bumper sticker…

  • myusername on 05/03/2019 - 17:40

    someone was born yesterday it seems

  • [Deactivated] on 05/03/2019 - 18:37
    +1

    Does this relate to Rupert Murdoch's News Limited paywall? For quite a while Rupert was trying to force paid subscriptions but then that funneled tons of people over to Daily Mail and their clickbait business model. I am guessing on seeing the user numbers, Rupert just said eff it and follow the Daily Mail low road.

  • Hirolol on 06/03/2019 - 09:13

    It’s always been clickbait
    It’s actually my guilty pleasure but I can tell which ones are pure clickbait so don’t bother looking at them.
    I still go to abc.com.au and listen to abc radio. Gotta love Jon faine.

    • Cliche Guevara on 06/03/2019 - 16:09

      abc.NET.au… (although abc.com.au does redirect)

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