These clickbaity articles have become way more common on the web. There's rarely anyone writing quality content for the sake of the content anymore. It's all just glorified hyperlink farming and ad impressions.
I tried to be clever and use California's library system which has WSJ for free, because I thought "hey its 2017 library databases like ProQuest wouldn't still suck right"
well it was horrible like I just got jettisoned back onto Blackboard in the mid 2000s, so after that I just bought the WSJ subscription.
Why, it's as though those organizations that didn't resort to link farming and choking their page with ads went out of business because everybody wanted their journalists to work for free!
End users have been conditioned for two decades that everything online is free. The advertising industry wasn't pushed by end users to become more and more aggressive until ad blockers became viable and a must.
The best quality content I find is almost always someones personal, non commercial writeup. often times this is something as simple as the comment section of a article, or their own blog.
They put no ads and do it because they care about the subject and care about their reputation so they make sure its not spamy.
I have alwasy hoped for a micropayment system I could use to reward this behavior.
(And this is why I subscribe to media that does support long-form journalism and kit out journalists with the tools--and the paychecks--necessary to make it happen. Subscribe as in pay-money-to-on-a-monthly-basis. It's the only way it survives.)
Writing "quality content" takes time. with adblockers the norm, good writers have been put out of business. It's like what Uber and co did to cab drivers.
Maybe a mod should change the link to the justice.gov post I linked to in the parent? I don't see any articles out there that add anything substantial.
