{"id":315,"date":"2013-10-29T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/?p=315"},"modified":"2013-10-29T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:48:38","slug":"the-bait-and-switch-battle-for-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/29\/the-bait-and-switch-battle-for-eyeballs\/","title":{"rendered":"The bait-and-switch battle for eyeballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maggiemcgrath\/2013\/10\/29\/no-iphone-bump-for-september-retail-sales\/\" title=\"This linkbait smells like rotten fish\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a> goes the extra mile in shoving an Apple reference into an article that is actually about something else completely:<\/p>\n<p>The headline: &#8220;No iPhone Bump For September Retail Sales&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first paragraph: &#8220;Even though U.S. shoppers raced out to buy the latest model of the iPhone, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates consumers kept an otherwise-tight grip on their wallets in anticipation of the dampening effect of the government shutdown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s really an article about the U.S. retail sales report for September. But without an Apple mention, it&#8217;s just news, not linkbait.<\/p>\n<p>If journalism is dying, Forbes is sticking the knife in, twisting it, and licking the blood off of it\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes goes the extra mile in shoving an Apple reference into an article that is actually about something else completely: The headline: &#8220;No iPhone Bump For September Retail Sales&#8221; The first paragraph: &#8220;Even though U.S. shoppers raced out to buy the latest model of the iPhone, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates consumers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/29\/the-bait-and-switch-battle-for-eyeballs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The bait-and-switch battle for eyeballs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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