▲ 347 ▼ Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi (www.wtoc.com) submitted 9 months ago by arrow74@lemmy.zip to c/news@lemmy.world 68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 139 points 9 months ago (4 children) Now that’s a headline that isn’t clickbait, it fucking click kidnapped me permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago (3 children) Damn. I’m taking stock of everything we’ve lost in the headline: no reference to “slammed,” “burned,” or other intense attack words accurate summary of the situation nothing overstated no key details left out isn’t a listicle nothing inviting the reader to see more by promising the rest of the headline in the article, none of that saved-you-a-click shit My god, this might actually be good honest journalism! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (2 children) They forgot hepatitis permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] arrow74@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 9 months ago It was in the article. Emphasis on was since the entire article has been changed since I posted permalink fedilink source parent [–] RickyRigatoni 1 point 9 months ago Not real. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child) They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases. So crappy journalism. Edit Apparently a lo of people have mentioned this here. I simply didn't read far enough. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases. So crappy journalism. I'm starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it's a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc). permalink fedilink source parent [–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 9 months ago “diseased monkeys pan careless driver” permalink fedilink source parent [–] tal@lemmy.today 37 points 9 months ago According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida "Florida Man's Outbreak Monkeys on the Rampage in Mississippi" permalink fedilink source parent [–] ftmpch@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (2 children) If you go back and re-read the article, you'll find it's been edited, and now has no mention of any diseases and says the monkeys weren't infectious. So I think it was clickbait, after all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago That’s how they get ya permalink fedilink source parent [–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago That's just what the corpos over at Big Rhesus Monkey wants you to think. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago Except that it did turn out to be lying clickbait. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago (3 children) Damn. I’m taking stock of everything we’ve lost in the headline: no reference to “slammed,” “burned,” or other intense attack words accurate summary of the situation nothing overstated no key details left out isn’t a listicle nothing inviting the reader to see more by promising the rest of the headline in the article, none of that saved-you-a-click shit My god, this might actually be good honest journalism! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (2 children) They forgot hepatitis permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] arrow74@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 9 months ago It was in the article. Emphasis on was since the entire article has been changed since I posted permalink fedilink source parent [–] RickyRigatoni 1 point 9 months ago Not real. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child) They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases. So crappy journalism. Edit Apparently a lo of people have mentioned this here. I simply didn't read far enough. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases. So crappy journalism. I'm starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it's a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc). permalink fedilink source parent [–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 9 months ago “diseased monkeys pan careless driver” permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (2 children) They forgot hepatitis permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] arrow74@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 9 months ago It was in the article. Emphasis on was since the entire article has been changed since I posted permalink fedilink source parent [–] RickyRigatoni 1 point 9 months ago Not real. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 9 months ago It was in the article. Emphasis on was since the entire article has been changed since I posted permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago* (1 child) They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases. So crappy journalism. Edit Apparently a lo of people have mentioned this here. I simply didn't read far enough. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases. So crappy journalism. I'm starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it's a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago They changed to article. Edited out all references to diseases. So crappy journalism. I'm starting to think that link aggregators like the Threadiverse software and Reddit should keep a log of headlines, or at least headlines that they see, because it's a real issue for discussion on those sites. Like, maybe check and update at a geometrically-increasing interval (at submission time, after 1 hour, after 2 hours, after 4 hours, after 8 hours, etc). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 9 months ago “diseased monkeys pan careless driver” permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 37 points 9 months ago According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida "Florida Man's Outbreak Monkeys on the Rampage in Mississippi" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ftmpch@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (2 children) If you go back and re-read the article, you'll find it's been edited, and now has no mention of any diseases and says the monkeys weren't infectious. So I think it was clickbait, after all. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago That’s how they get ya permalink fedilink source parent [–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago That's just what the corpos over at Big Rhesus Monkey wants you to think. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago That’s how they get ya permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago That's just what the corpos over at Big Rhesus Monkey wants you to think. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rothe@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago Except that it did turn out to be lying clickbait. permalink fedilink source parent