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Ceefax has a long legacy: even today BBC News online stories are written so that the core of the story is told in the first four paragraphs, because that is wha
by bonaldi 8y ago
Ceefax has a long legacy: even today BBC News online stories are written so that the core of the story is told in the first four paragraphs, because that is what was sent to Ceefax.
(It's not just nostalgia, though the concision is good practice. It's because that format is still used by the BBC's "Red Button" TV information services.)
- ajb 8y agoThat's a based on standard newspaper practice; it's a lot older than Ceefax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
- bonaldi 8y agoYes, that's right but this a technical variant of that: it's literally the first 16 lines of the story, where "lines" are defined by the Ceefax standard