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In case someone wants an example of an actual published story that looks like this, here's one from the NY Times: https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-is-the-myster

by Youden 6y ago

In case someone wants an example of an actual published story that looks like this, here's one from the NY Times: https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-is-the-mystery-shopper-leaving-behind-all-those-online-shopping-carts-11593617464 https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-is-the-mystery-shopper-leav... 1100 words to answer the titular question, which really only needed a paragraph or two.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
Isn't that the Wall St. Journal? I have a sub for the NYT, and it's asking me to subscribe.
Simulacra 6y ago
Reporters might miss the God complex that Journalism class gave them.
MR4D 6y ago
Wall Street Journal, not the NY Times. I read that article the other day - it was infuriating in it's poor signal to noise ratio.
hef19898 6y ago
That is something I really hate, articles that are heavy on fluff with maybe 3 sentences of crunch in them. If I want to read a story, I take a book. This whole story telling thing, applied to everything, has a tendency to drive me crazy.
vlod 6y ago
That shone a light on a browser habit I've started to do. If I see an article I want to read, I generally don't bother reading it like a normal human: 1) reading the bullet list of TLDR points at the top and becz I'm sooo buzy with stuff to do, hit the back button. 2) reading the whole article trying to get past all the drivel to get to the 'good stuff'. No.. I immediately skip at least 2-4 paragraphs and start doing a search for words that are in my just created inverted-index of the title. Yeah... I've turned into a mini-google borg subnode processing unit :/ Inevitable as others have pointed out, it's just one sentence that is what I'm looking for and I leave disappointed. sigh
hyperrail 6y ago
That article is a Wall Street Journal A-Hed - one of the WSJ's funny news stories that they run every weekday below the fold of the front page. It takes a while to tell its story because the story is an extended funny anecdote. I doubt it was written that way as overlong clickbait, since you have to go through the strictly enforced (no free meter) WSJ.com subscriber paywall to read it online.

by Youden 6y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

Isn't that the Wall St. Journal? I have a sub for the NYT, and it's asking me to subscribe.

Simulacra 6y ago

Reporters might miss the God complex that Journalism class gave them.

MR4D 6y ago

Wall Street Journal, not the NY Times. I read that article the other day - it was infuriating in it's poor signal to noise ratio.

hef19898 6y ago

That is something I really hate, articles that are heavy on fluff with maybe 3 sentences of crunch in them. If I want to read a story, I take a book. This whole story telling thing, applied to everything, has a tendency to drive me crazy.

vlod 6y ago

That shone a light on a browser habit I've started to do. If I see an article I want to read, I generally don't bother reading it like a normal human: 1) reading the bullet list of TLDR points at the top and becz I'm sooo buzy with stuff to do, hit the back button. 2) reading the whole article trying to get past all the drivel to get to the 'good stuff'. No.. I immediately skip at least 2-4 paragraphs and start doing a search for words that are in my just created inverted-index of the title. Yeah... I've turned into a mini-google borg subnode processing unit :/ Inevitable as others have pointed out, it's just one sentence that is what I'm looking for and I leave disappointed. sigh

hyperrail 6y ago

That article is a Wall Street Journal A-Hed - one of the WSJ's funny news stories that they run every weekday below the fold of the front page. It takes a while to tell its story because the story is an extended funny anecdote. I doubt it was written that way as overlong clickbait, since you have to go through the strictly enforced (no free meter) WSJ.com subscriber paywall to read it online.