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Pope Francis warns that excessive scrolling causes 'brain rot' (www.euronews.com)

submitted 5 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 66 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This article is fascinating in its choice of headlines. It briefly mentions the headline quote, and then goes on to primarily talk about the number of journalists who were killed last year. It was just an article about a conference the pope spoke at, but i really thought it'd be about something else before i read it. Successful clickbait, i guess???

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You'd think they'd lead with the journalists. Guess they think cellphones are more important.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

YOU won't BELIEVE what THIS POPE SAID about YOUR PHONE! Click here to find out how!

[–] TisI@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your first mistake is writing THIS POPE, when it should've been THE POPE. That will get more people interested, because it's THE pope and not just any regular pope.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about SPACE POPE?

[–] TisI@reddthat.com 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We're not in space now, are we?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, we are. Literally. Earth is a space rock.

[–] TisI@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

You're no fun, are you?

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

Space and time, but they're sort of the same thing.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm clicking but it won't do anything!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you need to buy a new mouse.

This post brought to you by Logitech.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

I'm sorry, i didn't have time to go back and forth with you about this. I have to go pick up a new mouse for my pc.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wonder if there are a number of people who will always read an article if the pope is mentioned, so if he's related to a topic even a little bit, he gets to be in the headline.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Oh definitely. My grandmother was exactly like that.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is pretty off topic, but in traditional newspaperology headlines the story writers have no say in the headline. Headline writing is a separate discipline with specialized headline writers, because you have to carefully count the character sizes to fit the headline into the space.

This traditional art changed on its head when headlines online were no longer constrained by the page layout.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Of course, but it's entirely unrelated to the body of the article.