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> One morning in June, Douglas Yoder climbed into a white government SUV... This again. I won't stop complaining about this tedious journalistic style until it
by golergka 8y ago
> One morning in June, Douglas Yoder climbed into a white government SUV...
This again. I won't stop complaining about this tedious journalistic style until it finally dies.
I don't want to hear a personal story of a random person that's related to the issue in some way. I certainly don't want to read anything about how he spends his day - I value my own day too much for that. I just want to read about the issue itself.
That's why people don't read longreads anymore.
- iamthirsty 8y agoBloomberg writers definitely overuse this hook, but long-reads are more narrative-focused, so it totally makes sense to introduce the issue this way — just not every time.
- golergka 8y agoI don't mind narrative, but I want narrative about technologies and science instead of people. If you can't write a narrative without focusing on people, may be you shouldn't write about science and tech at all.
- drcode 8y agoI bought this book recently called "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs" https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Dinosaurs-History-World/dp/0062490427/ https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Dinosaurs-History-World/dp/... You would think it would be a bad-ass book talking about dinosaurs, but no... it's mainly tedious descriptions about the look on the face of a particular paleontologist when the author met them at the train station, and how wild a particular paleontologist party was the day before they found an important new bone.... I couldn't imagine a more boring book, had to give up half way through.