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Omg, this article is so long, useless and boring that I can't manage to read it to the end! The subject in itself is interesting, and there could probably have

Omg, this article is so long, useless and boring that I can't manage to read it to the end! The subject in itself is interesting, and there could probably have been a story of around 50 lines to describe the case and its resolution. But, here, the author is professionally trying to waste your time with hundreds of useless paragraph of blabla that might have been generated automatically by an AI. For exemple who cares that the stolen art division of the Belgian police changed its name 3 times for obvious non original names? Or that the lead investigator has a wine yard and like to offer wine to his friends and colleagues...

greatgib 5y ago
To the persons down voting, did you manage to read the piece till the end? Here are example of time wasted to make you stay longer on the article page or to fill empty space: "When I arrived at his eighth-floor office, overlooking the sprawling Belgian capital, he poured himself a cup while staring down at Molenbeek, which has been called by its own mayor “a fertile ground for terrorism.”" "Belgian police first established a Bureau of Art and Antiques in 1988. Thirteen years later, when Belgium reorganized its law enforcement agencies, the unit became part of the country’s federal police force and was renamed Section Art" "he recalled the investigation from behind his tidy desk, next to a table piled high with old case files. He wore gray slacks, a short-sleeve button-up, and the scuffed black dress shoes favored by detectives and those who play them on TV. His face served as its own good-cop-bad-cop routine: friendly, disarming smile; penetrating blue eyes." " When Archer and his partner delivered the recovered paintings to Lorca’s daughter in Brussels, Verhaegen surprised his FBI colleagues with a special gift. “He grows his own grapes and makes his own wine,” Archer said. “We enjoyed the bottle thoroughly.”
- kthejoker2 5y ago
  Yep, heaven forbid the writer actually writes instead of just spitting out a Buzzfeed listicle ("8 Famous Artists You Didn't Know Supported Terrorism") de gustibus non est disputandum and all, but magazine writing has been ever thus, from Thoreau to Hemingway, Mailer to Wolfe.

greatgib 5y ago

To the persons down voting, did you manage to read the piece till the end? Here are example of time wasted to make you stay longer on the article page or to fill empty space: "When I arrived at his eighth-floor office, overlooking the sprawling Belgian capital, he poured himself a cup while staring down at Molenbeek, which has been called by its own mayor “a fertile ground for terrorism.”" "Belgian police first established a Bureau of Art and Antiques in 1988. Thirteen years later, when Belgium reorganized its law enforcement agencies, the unit became part of the country’s federal police force and was renamed Section Art" "he recalled the investigation from behind his tidy desk, next to a table piled high with old case files. He wore gray slacks, a short-sleeve button-up, and the scuffed black dress shoes favored by detectives and those who play them on TV. His face served as its own good-cop-bad-cop routine: friendly, disarming smile; penetrating blue eyes." " When Archer and his partner delivered the recovered paintings to Lorca’s daughter in Brussels, Verhaegen surprised his FBI colleagues with a special gift. “He grows his own grapes and makes his own wine,” Archer said. “We enjoyed the bottle thoroughly.”

kthejoker2 5y ago
Yep, heaven forbid the writer actually writes instead of just spitting out a Buzzfeed listicle ("8 Famous Artists You Didn't Know Supported Terrorism") de gustibus non est disputandum and all, but magazine writing has been ever thus, from Thoreau to Hemingway, Mailer to Wolfe.