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Ha, cheers, Pete. I do wish I had a choice whether to read the Evening Standard or not, but I don't. I've never known Reuters to have the same coverage of London issues, or have I missed something? To be fair, the ES has its strengths, too. It's quite a good accumulator of local newspaper stories, for instance.
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We have a London bureau but we report news which we think is important for a global audience, so the significance bar is quite high. The ES is a good local/regional paper really, I don't think there's anything wrong with their reporting. It has got noticeably better since Lebedev bought it in my opinion, it went through a phase before that of being quite nasty.
We can talk about 'clickbait' but with the analytics at the disposal of media outlets it is very easy to measure what is popular, then produce more like it. If the general public were more likely to click on quality, in-depth journalism there would be more quality, in-depth journalism.
I'm afraid your thread might as well be titled contemporary 'society' :/
Fox
Read your news on a proper news outlet with decent standards like Reuters, then you won't need to get angry about such digressions :P
http://www.reuters.com/
Seriously, you have a choice, don't read articles by outlets with no real journalistic standards. Here's a great piece of reporting that was put out earlier today:
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/migration/#
In terms of your question about headlines, the headline should accurately represent the story. Simple. Anything else is shoddy.
All this said, ultimately the output of any news organisation is driven by its clients. Sorry.