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The full title is: "M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No Apparent Reason” LOL" Seriously? LOL! What is journalism becoming? I really hope th
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
The full title is: "M1 MacBook Users Say Their Screens Are Cracking for “No Apparent Reason” LOL"
Seriously? LOL! What is journalism becoming? I really hope this style doesn't catch on and the author starts to write like a professional again.
"Container ship Evergiven gets stuck in the Suez Canal. LMAO!"
- allpressitute 5y agoThing is most press runs on ads and the art that IBM perfected and apple copied is pulling ads from negative publications. So if a story absolutely needs to be published and you still want to keep ads, you have to come up with a way.
- elicash 5y agoI think this is a low-quality article. At the same time, different styles of writing, including those that some may see as "unprofessional" because it mimics how people actually write to one another, can actually at times be MORE interesting to me personally. My issue is with the substance, not the style. On substance, the entire argument here is "well they're probably lying because SOMETHING has to explain it." I get if you want to stick to traditional news articles. For me, I like seeing writers express themselves. I just prefer they bring more reporting to the process than this writer did.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI'm perfectly fine with a more casual tone but I think plenty of authors are conflating conversational writing with being "hip" by peppering the text with internet lingo. There are also bloggers and substackers who utilize one-line asides to great effect. But maybe I'm just a cranky old man and this is what the audience likes nowadays.
- elicash 5y ago"LOL" goes back to the 80s. I'm not sure you can call it somebody trying to be hip. Almost certainly it's just a term they use like millions of others.
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