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For all it's many faults their policy of long descriptive headlines followed by bullet point summaries is a model I wish all news sites followed! Given their s
by PJDK 9y ago
For all it's many faults their policy of long descriptive headlines followed by bullet point summaries is a model I wish all news sites followed!
Given their success I'm not sure why more don't.
- IshKebab 9y agoAnd photos large enough to actually see. Very sad that the Daily Mail is leading the way here.
- logicallee 9y agoPerhaps real information is harder to source than fake info, and real news is too scant to benefit from that format. Also why papers bury the lead. (To make you read their hard work.) As an exercise go to the BBC and edit the first three articles you find into that format - you will see why they don't want to do it.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI.e. the interests of the readers are in conflict with interests of the paper. Frankly, if they want to bury the lede to make me read their hard work, then I'll gladly not read the article at all, unless forced to (rare these days).
- visarga 9y ago> For all it's many faults their policy of long descriptive headlines followed by bullet point summaries is a model I wish all news sites followed! Thanks to this ML can use it as a summarization dataset.
- exodust 9y agoI hate bullet point summaries in news stories, they're distracting and add clutter. They should at least be hidden and only viewable when clicked.