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> Now the first paragraph must contain an emotional human-interest style “hook” to rope in the reader

So news sites have become a recipe site? Except, you’ve limited to a single paragraph vs 7/8 of the page



It's more that they're using Skinner Box variable rate reinforcement bs to rope readers in and keep them reading, which explains why the text feels so randomized and out-of-any-logical-order.

https://www.nirandfar.com/want-to-hook-your-users-drive-them...




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