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Somewhere in between this and parent article (but leaning more to this) would be perfect. A little detail is good but these text walls of "A tall slim man he st
by mythrwy 7y ago
Somewhere in between this and parent article (but leaning more to this) would be perfect. A little detail is good but these text walls of "A tall slim man he stood in the shade of a very old tree that was greener then an emerald as he took a drag on his cigarette and told me he had known Bob since childhood" get old fast.
Am I the only one that doesn't want a screenplay to read about a sequence of events? Or thinks that type of stuff is becoming far too common lately?
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- leppr 7y agoIt depends if the goal is mostly to inform or entertain me. For some investigative-type articles about a foreign culture/environment, it can be enjoyable. For news reporting, it's a nuisance.
- ergothus 7y agoRight? I DO have interest in a higher level of detail - how was this uncovered, etc - but the whole article was painful to parse. I also had to keep remembering that "Jeff" and "David" were the same person.
- yellowapple 7y agoYeah, that bugged me, too. No reason why the author couldn't have been consistent about whether to use the first or last name there. Or at the very least used "Mr. David" instead of just "David" to make it clear that no, this ain't some other guy named "David". It's okay if it's clearly a first name, but when it's ambiguous like that it's confusing.