Can inevitably be ignored, as the writer has i) used this framing — Lowenstein’s Curiosity Gap — to manipulate you into clicking; and ii) hasn’t been able to synthesis a position on the issue. As a reader you will be left with a ‘on the one hand X, on the other hand Y’ shrug.
= shrugticles
cp Listicles.
cp Fearful clickbait / fearmongering and the medialisation of crime.