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Monday 8 February 2021

Here's what you need to know

 



- here's what you need to know indeed. It is possibly just me, but I do dislike condescending headlines of this type. As if that's it whatever your level of interest and knowledge. As a mainstream piece it's fine within its limitations but  why add that condescending line? 

It makes me think of garbage like - here's what you need to know about climate change.

3 comments:

Doonhamer said...

Makes me assume it is click bait and I am being invited to follow a trail of factlets with annoying pop-ups, pop-downs, pop-ins-from-the-sides, false Next choices, and if you are really lucky an audio pop-over.
Only to reach the end and be really "So was that all?" dissappointed.

Sam Vega said...

I've given it some thought, and can't actually find anything about missions to Mars that I need to know.

The stuff I need to know is how to get an emergency delivery of heating oil without paying a massive surcharge; how to operate the dog's lead clip when wearing mittens; whether my baby fig tree will have enough soil if planted against our wall.

Nothing about the red planet in there at all.

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - sounds familiar. We are learning to avoid them but what will they try next to get those clicks?

Sam - I'm quite interested but wouldn't go to a mainstream news source to keep tabs on these things.