From clickbait to truth in nine minutes and three headlines
Dr Mumbo was certainly startled by a headline that popped up on the SMH website this afternoon.
SMH: Masked terror?
Naturally the bait got him clicking. So when he actually read the story, he was relieved that the whole thing was just a training exercise organised by the police.
He did, however, feel slightly like he’s been tricked.
The SMH online has become nothing more than Daily Mail-lite. At least it doesn’t steal content. It just writes absolute sh1t most of the time appeasing an audience with a below-par IQ. Either readers are to blame for clicking on it or Australia is for accepting this as the norm. You get the odd decent piece from the paper from the likes of Hartcher but most of it is written by a content monkey unlikely to have voted in more than one federal election.
Careful Typical, if you upset the little snowflakes they’ll block you from their Facebook page (like ABC News princesses do with people they disagree with too).