I expected this to be complaining about the loss of complex literary writing in favor of more simple, sensationalist style. It's not. Basically, he pastes par

I expected this to be complaining about the loss of complex literary writing in favor of more simple, sensationalist style. It's not. Basically, he pastes part of a New Yorker article in Hemingway, a tool that evaluates the reading level of a text and flags it if it's more complex than a ninth grade reading level. Spoiler: the New Yorker piece has too many big words and more complex sentences than what you'd write to target a ninth grade audience. He then does this for a longer New York Times think piece, also written in a New Yorker-like style. What do you expect? These are not news articles, these are think pieces, even though one of them is published in the New York Times. They're supposed to be literary, which sometimes means having words more complex than a ninth grade level and sentences longer than what Hemingway would write. If you tried this on an actual news article, where the style is often simpler, you might get a different result.