4 ms·
It somewhat makes sense for articles to be vague. As frustrating as it is when you want to go deep on a story, these articles are not providing a knowledge grap
by rand_r 6y ago
It somewhat makes sense for articles to be vague. As frustrating as it is when you want to go deep on a story, these articles are not providing a knowledge graph service. They’re condensing a story down to only the most important information. In effect, providing a summarization service for real-world events.
When it works well, it lets you efficiently absorb the gist of a story. Of course, it’s a bit of a subjective art and unable to serve all audiences.
- xxpor 6y agoThat was true in the newspaper era. Now that we're in the web era, they can do both. They could have improved the article immensely without changing any of the prose, while adding links to the underlying documents. WaPo and the NYT do this regularly. Don't forget the power of hypertext :)
- jiveturkey 6y agothat would be a lot more expensive