All of them do it online … distort reality in the name of earning ad revenues … major broadcast networks … Huffington Post … political sites of all ideological ilk. They need a election horse race in order to attract readers … even when one does not exist. Worship the sensational … ignore reality … ignore facts … these are not informing the public of anything but “look at us!!”
click·bait
/ˈklikbāt/
noun informal
(on the Internet) content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose main purpose is to attract attention and draw visitors to a particular web page.
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Curmudgeon at Work 