"Roughly a quarter of respondents said the news is too sensationalist (25.3%). Ironically, the use of clickbait and alarming headlines to engage audiences may be driving them away in the competitive attention economy." You don't say

I read something the other day about formerly respectable news organisations adopting Clickbait as a kind of gateway drug to lure young folk into reading actual news stories. Had to laugh.

Lol

I was stuck in the car earlier, so tuned the radio for the first time since the battery was replaced in April, and caught the RNZ panel talking about this report. They went nowhere near anything that suggested the quality of news was less than great.