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If I am allowed to go a bit side-ways, I am curious to ask what is other HN members' opinion on the writing style of the article. I find it particularly diffic
by jaclaz 9y ago
If I am allowed to go a bit side-ways, I am curious to ask what is other HN members' opinion on the writing style of the article.
I find it particularly difficult to follow, jumping from "history" to "anecdata" then to "data", back to "particular history", then a note or two about the actual request, then again some "law history", then something about the actual response obtained, etc., and again back to "history", mixing in all of this some "opinions", and back to "anecdata", some attempt to "humour", back to "history".
Is it just me, or is it objectively "confusing"?
- anitil 9y agoI don't know about 'objectively' but I'd say the mix of the author's story along with the ex-black panther story was slightly off. It seemed like two stories with vastly different weights ('I was interested in this thing' vs 'I was tracked by the FBI for years'). And the paragraph about the 'Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo' sort of went nowhere - I actually had to go back and try work out why it was there. But I'm not a journalist or an editor so could just be wrong