{"id":4063,"date":"2020-10-20T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2020-10-20T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T16:13:17","slug":"clickbait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/20\/clickbait\/","title":{"rendered":"Clickbait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I did a speed read of this article but should have read it in more detail &#8211; perhaps I will do that this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-34213693?fbclid=IwAR0Z1IF8NBfUasZZP5ky5ow7cPzJiZF8h9DJu5H4ZNZgVGcRCd5rmErJiCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-34213693?fbclid=IwAR0Z1IF8NBfUasZZP5ky5ow7cPzJiZF8h9DJu5H4ZNZgVGcRCd5rmErJiCE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\n is a golden rule of journalism, taught to any news reporter at the \nbeginning of their career &#8211; your introduction should grab the reader \nstraight away.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you cannot hold someone&#8217;s attention for a sentence, you have no hope of getting them to read the rest of your article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same is true for headlines; stark, witty or intriguing ones can draw the reader&#8217;s eye to a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Headline  writing has long been considered a skill but, in the digital age, a new  word has become synonymous with online journalism &#8211; clickbait.  Ha ha, did I get your attention? Finis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a speed read of this article but should have read it in more detail &#8211; perhaps I will do that this afternoon. https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-34213693?fbclid=IwAR0Z1IF8NBfUasZZP5ky5ow7cPzJiZF8h9DJu5H4ZNZgVGcRCd5rmErJiCE It is a golden rule of journalism, taught to any news reporter at the beginning of their career &#8211; your introduction should grab the reader straight away. If you cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}