{"id":21860,"date":"2015-07-20T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=21860"},"modified":"2015-07-19T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:32:13","slug":"newsletter-issue-816-another-report-about-the-hit-bait-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2015\/07\/newsletter-issue-816-another-report-about-the-hit-bait-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #816: Another Report about the Hit Bait Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably recognize the tune. One big way for a site to attract traffic is to include Apple Inc. in the title, even if the article makes only a passing reference to the company. It doesn\u2019t matter whether it comes from an individual blogger or a multinational publishing conglomerate. Unfortunately, it also doesn\u2019t matter if the story is true, half-true or totally false. Just say \u201cApple-yadda-yadda\u201d and people will pay attention, or at least that\u2019s what they must believe.<\/p>\n<p>That explains why alleged Apple scandals still get coverage even after they are over and done with or were not what they were claimed to be. I mean, do you still want to hear about AntennaGate?<\/p>\n<p>I can give lots of examples, but one immediately comes to mind. The other day, in one of my forums, someone posted a link to last year\u2019s BBC documentary that attacked Apple\u2019s treatment of factory workers in its Asian supply chain. This is old news. The New York Times ran a hit piece about it a few years ago, but the claim is similar. Workers who build Apple\u2019s gadgets are getting slave wages, and working long hours in substandard factories. The number of suicides is, as a result, extremely high.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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