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It's not hard if the writer deals with their NIH syndrome and realizes that journalism figured this out like 125 years ago with the inverted pyramid structure.
by rhizome 8y ago
It's not hard if the writer deals with their NIH syndrome and realizes that journalism figured this out like 125 years ago with the inverted pyramid structure.
- ghaff 8y agoI guess I don't understand what giving a presentation at the right level for an audience has to do with an inverted pyramid structure of a news story. In any case, it's only some journalism. Mostly straight news in newspapers. And the motivation was partly practical. Inverted pyramid lets an editor cut a story at a more or less arbitrary point in order to fit it in a hole of particular size on a page. This is/was particularly true of wire service copy.