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People not reading the post was a meme even back in Slashdot days before Reddit or Digg were invented.
It's true, though. I am very guilty of it. I have gotten better at it but 100% of the time I'd click the comments first no matter what. If it seemed worthy of my attention I'd click the link. If it seemed too far-fetched I'd click the link.
I'm realizing now that it's mostly because I don't want to wait the 0.5 seconds for another page to load (ridiculous on my part) and possibly deal with paywalls.
Honestly, it is as much a condemnation of the websites writing the articles as it is a problem with users.
A lot of news articles in particular are all fluff, no substance. Especially the ones later in the news cycle for any given news story can often be summarized by half a sentence and otherwise nothing new if you have been following the story.