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The article is representative of the modern fad of mixing narrative story telling with information. It could be half as long and still provide sufficient "color
by sidlls 8y ago
The article is representative of the modern fad of mixing narrative story telling with information. It could be half as long and still provide sufficient "color" to prevent it being merely a bullet list of facts.
- danso 8y agoThis isn't a modern fad, it's literally the point of storytelling.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoPoint is, reporting should not involve storytelling at all.
- hunter2_ 8y agoWhen reading/writing news, "news stories" are one option as seen here, and "news reports" are another option. I think so long as there's a group of people who prefer the story format, better to offer that format than leave those people disinterested in consuming news.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI wonder if they realize they're leaving the other group disinterested in consuming news. I don't read news anymore. Haven't for years. Initially it was because I found it too depressing, later on I realized that a) almost nothing on the news is meaningful to my life and b) it's mostly full of bullshit designed to grab eyeballs, but recently I realized yet another motivation: I don't read news because of the narrative style. I'd probably read some if I could find a source that actually cared about inverted pyramid, and ideally just made the story a list of bullet points. Having to burn brain cycles to tease out actual facts from someone's storytelling is just a waste of time to me.
- andrewem 8y agoThis type of reporting is called a "feature story", as opposed to "straight news" or "hard news". The whole point of a feature is to tell an interesting but not necessarily time-sensitive story about something which happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_story https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_story
- TeMPOraL 8y agoSure. I'm just tired of all news being of this kind (or long-form writing). I can't find any news sources optimized for communicating facts and facts only, as efficiently as possible.
- megaremote 8y agoAll news is not like this. In fact, most news is not like this. I am not sure where you are getting your news from?