I think articles coming out ahead of the announcement, explaining to the general public what the announcement means is actually really helpful. Then more people who might be interested can turn in to the announcement itself.
I agree. It's just the click-baiting that irks me.
In other news, Perl 6 is done!
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you can do everything for sweet sweet internet points.
For publishers it's sweet, sweet internet munies.
For the official announcement, where you'll hear all of the sound bytes you'll be reading later today, you can get to the livestream from Caltech's website here https://www.caltech.edu/