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I wish someone smarter than myself could explain to me why I find articles written in this style (or tone of voice or rythmn or whatever the correct term is) so
by steerpike 16y ago
I wish someone smarter than myself could explain to me why I find articles written in this style (or tone of voice or rythmn or whatever the correct term is) so nauseating and irritating?
- nimai 16y ago102 paragraphs with no sections, organization, or even an introduction to the article? A title that immediately puts you on the defensive? Quotes like this? “I don’t know anyone I would say is smarter than Nathan,” Gates, an investor in IV, once observed.
- MC27 16y agoIt's not really an article, it's a book extract. A demo to get you to purchase the book and it fills the paper.
- Tycho 16y agoI'm not sure either but I think it might be because in the back of your mind you know there's about 5-10 sentences worth of actual meat to the article (ie. quotes from the interviewees) but they spread them out over dozens of paragraphs. And act like this is entertaining for the reader. edit: there's a cute widget/plug-in/extension for someone to build - make something that strips newspaper articles of all text except the quotes. May need some jiggering about to make it readable.