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Crying Wolf And Other Click Bait Tactics

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  The digital age of communications brings with it all sort of opportunities for some to cash in on the traffic on the Internet, and most of it involves either pictures chosen to bait the readers, as well as article titles chosen to real them in.  For a long while conspiracy theories were a big crowd raiser, leading people to visit sites all over the net, all you had to do was come up with some sort of unique spin and theory to obtain an audience.  And then there are the ufo sites which only have to speculate on the possibility of things and does not have to produce evidence because they have that covered with the line used by Tesla buffs that the government is suppressing information.  Maybe the funniest of them all are those who weekly tell us that Planet X is just now entering our solar system from the south end of the sun, and they use lens artifacts and other lens aberrations as evidence that this is true  Our solar system suffers weekly assaults by Nibiru and so I wonder how in the universe we have managed to survive it all?  (hehe)

  Now the new topic of interest that a writer can use for click bait is political news and views, of course its not really news as much as it is opinion and spin, and so complete fabrications to attract an audience, and hence the writer is not concerned with credibility as much as they are about appealing to some special interest who feed off such views from the angles the writers present.  Who knows the world could go up in smoke tomorrow,  nuclear war may be inevitable due to the incompetents in our government, or things may be better off than we can believe and we might be heading into a time where reason again comes to dominate, but that kind of reason will not be found nor suggested on click bait web sites and alternative sources for so called news and views.

  Now as to some balance to all of this nonsense, I find that scanning the AM Mediumwave band at night allows me to hear from numerous conservative talk shows and hear some of the more mainstream conservative views of the people, I like to hear what the average Joe thinks about things as he calls into the talk shows, and in this way I can gauge where the grass roots is in terms of national awareness and issues of concern.  And I do not have to listen to the lunatic fringe in the mix, unless I happen to tune into Coast To Coast AM with George Noory, formerly hosted by Art Bell.

  I would suggest that the intellect within us all remembers that we can not get all of our information from one source since each source may be too narrowly focused on their pet peeves, and is not looking up and around to take in more of what is happening in this world and nation.

  If CNN and MSNBC have come under attack by most everyone as being fountains of fake news, how much more will those web sites with lunatic fringe views be stigmatized in the long run as sources of incredibly fake news?  Some really are incredible you know.  Some tell us that they are receiving inter-dimensional communications from space aliens who are telling them what is happening in this world and they in turn tell us what to watch out for.

  Lets not forget to check our own reality from time to time, and question what people are saying and reporting as being factual, all will tell us that they are resources of truth, if they said other wise then they would loose what audience they have.  Its mostly for the clicks you know, for the ads they run or the articles they sell, but most of them use videos of which they have Youtube monetizing with ads and hence they are making revenue this way.  It matters not if the video is real or true, only that it can obtain a million clicks.  The monetization of clicks are what it is all about with most of these folk.  This is the bottom line.

  Most all decent ad and product companies will decline such sites to be one of their affiliate advertisers.



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