Explained: Why truckers are blockading the EU's border with Ukraine (www.euronews.com)

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Polish truck drivers have spent nearly a month blockading different crossing points along the border with Ukraine. Last Friday, Slovak drivers joined the protest, turning the dispute into an all-out European crisis. #EuropeDecoded

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[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They are mad because of the economic exemptions the EU gave Ukraine to support the war has hurt their profits. Ukrainian truck drivers are making the best of it and taking deals in Europe that are normally more expensive and Ukrainians have no access to.

Fuck that clickbait. Why do journalists feel the need to continue this annoying practice ?

[-] roastedDeflator@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Why you say it's a clickbait? The article does talks about the points you mention.

[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Clickbait titled articles often do but purposefully obscure the topic. A title should inform the reader of the content, such as "Polish truck drivers protest EU war exemptions for Ukraine".

Instead, click bait articles go for sensationalist non informative titles, like "You won't BELIEVE what Polish truck drivers have done by the border to Ukraine!!!!"

[-] Umbrias@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

But this title simply says it is explaining why a thing is happening. It isn't sensationalizing, placing an emotional value on it, nor excessively simplifying it.

This title is the opposite of click bait.

[-] roastedDeflator@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That is my understanding on the title as well. In relation to it's content, I found it pretty dissent.

@ NeuronautML if you have another article that gives a better overview on this topic, it would be great if you could add the link here. Thanks!

[-] randomname01@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago

The simple fact is that journalism requires money, and that money comes from advertisements in the case of free online publications. This title isn’t unreasonable, it piques your interest to click the article, and the article informs you exactly about what you expected.

I don’t really have an issue with this.