Tour de France 2017

Interesting and horrific at the same time. The second story dollar-it's a strong dollar...

he spends all his time looking at his power meter, is it little wonder he doesn't recognise the riders in the peleton

Typical article from the Bullshit Broadcasting Cunts, then.

cos it's the BBC and they have clickbait on their homepage

Citation needed?

At a glance, just now.

X reasons why ...
could this be the ....

And so on.

A number of these pinnacles of journalism fall well below the standards the BBC once had. Pointless articles.

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Yeah, but they're not clickbait are they? To be that they'd have to be plastered with ads, of which there are none on the site.

Clickbait headlines are written so as to tempt clicks to ad views. Therefore they are written to be as good as headlines can be at piquing interest. So, if a legitimate journalist site uses the same style, what does that imply? To me it implies they are writing an engaging site, no?

I think the term is used as much to describe the quality of content as much as it's intent with regards to generating clicks, and the BBC being relieved of the obligation of generating advertising revenue could arguably afford not to bombard its patrons with idiotic non-articles couched in open ended hyperbole. Unless they really want to be competing with the Daily Mail for people's .5ms attention spans centered around salivating reportage of Tess Daily's neckline/bikini...

It's even better when you see the video of the commentators;

https://twitter.com/TeamDiData/status/889128481807880193

Clickbait headlines are written so as to tempt clicks to ad views.

Not quite true.

The unique page views are worth money in themselves. That's what click bait is after. The hits are syndicated and rights are sold on. This is then used to bump stats and demonstrate the engagement value of the 'network' that now owns the rights.

Cummings attack today?

Unlikely, I know, but it would make my day.

Big FO to EU - Brit winning overall and national jersey crossing line first on Champ Elysee

Well, I deliberately said 'Cummings attack' rather than 'Cummings win', as the chances of such an attack succeeding are obviously rather small, but I'd still like to see him try. How this could then be interpreted politically I don't know. :) Plus, Froome's African.

Don't you fucking start. I'm arguing with @hippy about this on Twitter.

Froome has had a British passport since birth.

That's what I said: click through the headline to view the page with the ads on.

Clickbait as a way to get people to engage with hard news is a strategy that has worked very well for Buzzfeed. But yes, you also get clickbait as an end in itself, like MailOnline. I think the BBC is trying to use it to engage with people who would otherwise think that it was a place for stuffy old white men. I pass no judgment on whether it works, because I don't know.

I also remember 20 years ago the big moan was that the news was too pmpous and serious and unrelatable, which is when everyone started trying to make human interest stories instead of just reporting the big stuff.

I merely replied to a tweet posing a reason he might be disliked by Brits.

I've lived here longer than he has, I also have the same passport and I certainly don't identify as British. It's a bit of a kick in the balls to where he was born and grew up - I wonder what his home town think of his Britishness?

Anyway you're just upset an Aussie won the Tour before any Brit and no one born in England has won it. :P

Don't you fucking start. I'm arguing with @hippy about this on Twitter.

Froome had to get one last bike change didn't he.

I have a vague feeling I've seen that before...

What has happened between Froome and Barguil? Polka dot guy ostensibly ignoring yellow guy.

Rain on cobbles. Potentially nasty.

What I'm going to miss most from this tour - the hilarious, shit Alpecin/Katusha bus adverts

Was the 'La Crash by Le Tour' stage run today, or was that yesterday?

Jesus there are some fuck-ugly new buildings in Paris...