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I wish more news site articles would practice this. So many times I'm scanning the damn thing for the bottom line to decide if I want to read all the waffle or
by anotherevan 7y ago
I wish more news site articles would practice this. So many times I'm scanning the damn thing for the bottom line to decide if I want to read all the waffle or not.
- sitkack 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
- anotherevan 7y agoYeah, I'm aware of that. I wish more journalists put it into practice though.
- sitkack 7y agoIt was followed in print. But ad clicks have inverted it so that we scroll through all the monetization.
- cryptonector 7y agoBack before the Internet became users' most important news source, newspapers used to do have a hierarchical structure to their stories. The headline would tell you a fair bit, then the first paragraph or two would tell you all the salient points, and each subsequent paragraph would add details. Now it seems that the important things are buried at the end of the article. The idea seems to be to hook you in and make you keep reading. You hope to find what you're looking for, and in the process stay longer on this page, possibly getting distracted by ads and (intrasite) links.
- woliveirajr 7y agoor make you view all the ads that appear in the page :)
- incompatible 7y agoSupport. It seems to be especially common in American publications which begin with a mini-story about some random person before getting to the actual point. E.g., I just looked at [1] which was linked from Hacker News and it starts out with some completely unnecessary details about somebody tripping over a garden hose. [1] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-12/medical-equipment-pricing https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-12/medical-eq...