Buzzfeed, Gawker and Upworthy take a lot of heat for their clickbait headlines, but despite what you might think, they didn't invent it. Clickbait has been around in some form or another since the 19th century.
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Learn more:
Merriam-Webster adding Clickbait to the dictionary
http://dailym.ai/1BLgsox
Why You Can't Resist Clicking on This Article: The Clickbait Conundrum
http://bit.ly/1BLgtc1
Yellow Journalism
to.pbs.org/1BLgwES
U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism
http://1.usa.gov/1BLgCfH
Spanish American War
http://bit.ly/1BLgFYR
Will Haters always Hate?
https://youtu.be/sPp7ZYOe5as
Spanish American War Propaganda
http://bit.ly/1BLgMUk
http://bit.ly/1BLhqkB
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
http://bit.ly/1BLgNYe
Assassination of President William McKinley
http://bit.ly/1BLgUmJ
The Innocent Origin of Yellow Journalism
http://bit.ly/1BLh7WW
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