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I want to take a moment to ask my fellow non-americans, do you also hate the american style of storytelling in news articles? It's obnoxious, useless and recent

• kristiandupont 10y ago
  ..it doesn't strike me as particularly American? I could easily see a Danish article written in this style. I don't dislike it but I do agree that the point should be at the top. Trying to build a crescendo seems to build on the assumption that your reader is fascinated by your writing already. It might be true if you have a following. Maybe this author does, I am not sure.
• jessriedel 10y ago
  Not sure it makes sense to say this is American vs non-American. Normal American newspaper stories adhere pretty well to the inverted pyramid structure, and the wiki article even suggests it first became prominent in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid It's really about news vs. human interest pieces, and many outlets (like the NY Times) feature both. Seems possible to me that American outlets produce more of these, but it'd be hard to disentangle this from the general dominance of American outlets on the English-speaking internet, such that non-American pieces are more likely to be directly local and, so, news rather than human interest.