All About the Clicks

Elevating the Standard of Media

I’m pretty frustrated with the New York Times. I grew up in New York City and have always loved the paper, considering the Gray Lady the definitive news source. But lately, increasingly for the last few years actually, she’s disappointed. Too often I see NYT resorting to clickbait titles for their articles and opinion pieces. It’s gotten so bad there’s a hilarious Twitter account called the New York Times Pitchbot with seemingly outlandish story ideas but sometimes it’s difficult to tell what’s real and what’s satire.

If it’s not the article titles, it’s the clickbait topics and angles that the NYT chooses to print. There have been about a half-dozen shoddy articles promoting the mirage of peace negotiations for the Ukraine war that throw out misinformation of Putin’s intentions, willingness to negotiate, and strawman prescriptions that sound good to t…