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You typed 24 words of plain text and painted a picture of the situation in Venezuela -- how hard was that? We're not talking about the font-family being unfash
by ken 8y ago
You typed 24 words of plain text and painted a picture of the situation in Venezuela -- how hard was that?
We're not talking about the font-family being unfashionable. This NYTimes page simply doesn't work (i.e., let me view its content) for me here on the latest version of a major web browser. This is a big, mature organization whose purpose is telling stories about the world, and it's failing at that.
By attempting to publish using cool web technologies that don't always work (apparently), they made the story about their medium, not their message. In the Scott McCloud system, they chose to emphasize step 6 (Surface) rather than step 5 (Craft). That's a perfectly valid artistic choice to make but they can't complain when people focus on that.