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Another case of a rambling article burying the lede. I skimmed the article and still can't figure out why we're weeks away from a point of no return. Is the se
by gaur 11y ago
Another case of a rambling article burying the lede.
I skimmed the article and still can't figure out why we're weeks away from a point of no return. Is the search going to be called off? Is there a transponder that's going to give out? Why can't the journalist just put the important information up front, instead of a bunch of irrelevant crap about someone's sleep deprivation?
- cosmotron 11y agoI believe the "weeks" figure is related to this quote: "Without fresh clues, the hunt should end about June, when four ships are due to finish combing the seas off western Australia, Dolan said."
- gaur 11y agoI saw that part. I guess to this journalist, "weeks" really means "four months".
- JacobAldridge 11y agoEarth to be swallowed by as sun expands into red giant in a matter of weeks. 4 billion years = 208 billion weeks, right?
- cddotdotslash 11y agoIn the fifth paragraph, it says "Without fresh clues, the hunt should end about June, when four ships are due to finish combing the seas off western Australia." I imagine that the news would be quite boring if every article were written as a bullet-point list of points. Sometimes people enjoy reading a story, not just a two minute summary.
- Johnie 11y agoI thought there was some technological reason (ie battery dead), but it seems like it's just a funding thing. The batteries only had 30 days of life anyway.
- imglorp 11y agoThat's just bad journalism. The first few lines should be who-what-when-where-why. Then you fill in the details and backstory at length.
- hga 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid
- myNXTact 11y agoSo what? This isn't a newspaper article, it is a nonfiction story. Bloomberg contains sections of their magazines written in your format; I always skip them. I prefer the long-form stories.
- logicrook 11y agoHonestly, why? After reading a few of them, I was completely sick of this format. It appears to me as information-free fluff, written in a very generic style. What do you like in this format? I genuinely don't understand how it can sell, but if it does, there must be something?
- Splines 11y agoLow density information is easier to digest. Plus, like a stick of gum, sometimes you just have nothing to do and it fills the time.
- tcpekin 11y agoIt can also be fun to read something that just isn't parsed down to the bare facts. For example, in my opinion, [0] would be much less interesting without the benefits of long form journalism. [0] http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diamonds http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diam...
- logicrook 11y ago
- Nicholas_C 11y agoIsn't there an add on or an app or something that summarizes articles via NLP? It would be nice to have an interstitial pop up with the article summarized and the ability to click out and read the full thing for more color.
- jml7c5 11y agoSee https://www.reddit.com/user/autotldr https://www.reddit.com/user/autotldr
- grahamburger 11y ago> I imagine that the news would be quite boring if every article were written as a bullet-point list of points. Sometimes people enjoy reading a story, not just a two minute summary. This is exactly what I've wanted but never known how to express it ... is there such a thing? I would love to browse a list of news stories distilled to factual bullet points. Sigh. One can dream :)
- draw_down 11y agoBut it's strange to call June "weeks away", June is months away.
- peter303 11y agoMalaysia, Australia and China funded about two years worth of search. Second anniversary is March 8.
- underwater 11y agoIs it really important information? Knowing the answer doesn't change anything about your life. I consider it to be interesting information. And the author has chosen to tell you an interesting story instead of just a fact fact. If the goal was to show you something that would satiate the need to be interested then I think the story does a much better job.
- stephengillie 11y agoWhen someone offers one thing but provides another, it's called bait-and-switch. When someone says they'll do one thing but do something else, that's lying.
- chc 11y agoYou don't think the story could have done just as good a job with an actual lede and the rest all the same?