• GooseFinger@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Not to distract from the content of this article, but why is journalism so poor now days? Almost every sentence/paragraph in this article says “she was a victim of childhood marriage,” just worded in various ways. I appreciate the background info on the origin of these laws and the the discussion of how widespread this issue currently is, but this article could be reduced to 6 or so sentences without losing any information.

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      11 months ago

      It’s all about the money. Clickbait titles, titles that grab your attention and get you to open the article, drive in more readers. Their sites are plastered with video ads, more traditional ads and the increasingly popular ‘please support us! We’re poor! Turn off your ad blocker or just go I guess’. The length of articles means you stay on the page longer and see more ads.