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Ugh, why does almost every paragraph end in "xxx said"? Dull reporting.
by DougBTX 17y ago
Ugh, why does almost every paragraph end in "xxx said"? Dull reporting.
- grinich 17y agoThis is Associated Press Style. Not all news needs to be a sensational narrative.
- jrockway 17y agoWhy even bother with English then? Might as well just make it an RDF file, so it's boring and machine-readable.
- hyperbovine 17y agoLiability. "The four men resold 1.5 million tickets for performances by Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, Kenny Chesney and Hannah Montana, the popular teen character played by Miley Cyrus, federal prosecutors said" asserts that federal prosecutors stated something. Remove the attribution and suddenly you are the one doing the stating. Since newspapers are supposed to print facts, this creates a problem in the event that the perpetrators are acquitted. Easy libel case. This is also why TV newscasters always say so-and-so is alleged to have committed a crime, even if there are like 43 eyewitnesses and the guy turned himself in.