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How would you even literally describe events on the news without telling a story?

contingencies 6y ago
Buddhist monks were traditionally encouraged to begin all teachings with a Pali language equivalent of Thus I have heard... https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.183.than.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.183.th...
flyinglizard 6y ago
AP and Reuters routinely do that.
- pmiller2 6y ago
  Really? You think these aren't "stories"? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-migrants-trfn/asian-migrant-workers-locked-up-dumped-as-coronavirus-curbs-ease-idUSKBN28Y13D https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-migran... https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-0dd42cddbd6d2ecf7bf970f05da788d4 https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politi... No cherry picking whatsoever here. These are just the first links on the respective news services' "top news" pages.
  - flyinglizard 6y ago
    “Routinely” does not mean “always”, especially as their own consumer facing news feeds are not the same as their news syndication.
    - pmiller2 6y ago
      You can redefine "routinely" to mean just about anything. I "routinely" get my car's oil changed about once every 6 months. All I did was go straight to their site and pick out literally the first link in a list, and 2/2 were most definitely stories.
6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
“Yesterday, Airbnb went public at a price of $X. It has revenue of $Y. It was founded in year Z...” Versus “In 2008, the genius Brian Chesky woke up on a frigid San Francisco morning with a crick in his neck and looked out on the fog. He had just had a terrible experience with an evil multinational hotel chain...” (Just a hyperbolic example, not meant to be all encompassing) It’s less of a measurable outcome and more of a goal and methodology.
- pmiller2 6y ago
  None of that is news. That's an almanac entry.

Buddhist monks were traditionally encouraged to begin all teachings with a Pali language equivalent of Thus I have heard... https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.183.than.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.183.th...

flyinglizard 6y ago

AP and Reuters routinely do that.

pmiller2 6y ago
Really? You think these aren't "stories"? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-migrants-trfn/asian-migrant-workers-locked-up-dumped-as-coronavirus-curbs-ease-idUSKBN28Y13D https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-migran... https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-0dd42cddbd6d2ecf7bf970f05da788d4 https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politi... No cherry picking whatsoever here. These are just the first links on the respective news services' "top news" pages.
- flyinglizard 6y ago
  “Routinely” does not mean “always”, especially as their own consumer facing news feeds are not the same as their news syndication.
  - pmiller2 6y ago
    You can redefine "routinely" to mean just about anything. I "routinely" get my car's oil changed about once every 6 months. All I did was go straight to their site and pick out literally the first link in a list, and 2/2 were most definitely stories.

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago

“Yesterday, Airbnb went public at a price of $X. It has revenue of $Y. It was founded in year Z...” Versus “In 2008, the genius Brian Chesky woke up on a frigid San Francisco morning with a crick in his neck and looked out on the fog. He had just had a terrible experience with an evil multinational hotel chain...” (Just a hyperbolic example, not meant to be all encompassing) It’s less of a measurable outcome and more of a goal and methodology.

pmiller2 6y ago
None of that is news. That's an almanac entry.