Ive noticed the clickfarm agglomerated story style has infected what is supposed to be professional journalism. Some hallmarks of this style include - paragra

Ive noticed the clickfarm agglomerated story style has infected what is supposed to be professional journalism. Some hallmarks of this style include - paragraphs are one sentence long - there isnt so much an order or train of thought, just a vomit of quotes - implying random quotes equate some kind of consensus or prevailing sentiment in group thought - an article that isnt anything more than the bunch of embedded quotes - a summary of the article at the beginning, that is really just four of the "paragraphs" below regurgitated up top. makes it really annoying, forcing you to read entire "paragraphs" twice. - an almost nonsequituresque repetitiveness, where half way through an article it almost starts over with slightly different words. as if the author forgot they already mentioned things, or decided to copy the article again to both trick people who scroll half way down an article, and to meet a word count. - extremely poor formatting, making it difficult to distinguish the article from the summary, the image quotes, ads for other articles. - articles that assume the reader has absolutely no domain knowledge, and spend half their words defining basic things. - and thats all with an ad blocker on, I imagine the experience is 10x worse without one. Business insider has been a big offender, a place that was already clickbait, but has devolved into something even worse. It's as if BI decided the daily mail was the best exemplar to emulate. Its a strange mix of DailyMail, Buzzfeed, and Vox. Something that gives the illusion of being an explainer, a listicle, and reporting at the same time. I am honestly shocked they purposely employ people with this writing style, it makes me want to be the change I want to see in the world and drop everything and get a job writing better journalism, just to try and displace some of the cruft. Their "editors" are doing absolutely nothing to take quote vomit and shape it into something coherent. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/day-trader-made-million-lost-it-all-cautionary-tale-investing-2020-7-1029383192# https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/day-trader-m... https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wirecard-stock-robinhood-traders-are-shying-away-from-investing-daytrader-2020-7-1029366881# https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wirecard-sto... This article is a great example of a weird listical, where the quotes themselves are the h1 bold headline and the body of the paragraph is just a picture of the person that adds nothing to the story. But not consistently, by the last one, the header is just a header, and the quote is the body. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/day-trading-boom-the-best-quotes-from-billionaires-2020-6-1029355205# https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/day-trading-... (Should listicle/listical look like popsicle or nautical.)