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Must a story break new ground and change our understanding of things to be interesting and worth reading?
by eli 4y ago
Must a story break new ground and change our understanding of things to be interesting and worth reading?
- ajross 4y agoMy word was "newsworthy", and that's a rather different standard than "interesting and worth reading". This article is a gossip piece about (mostly) a self-absorbed FBI informant who danced too close to the fire, may have fabricated evidence, seems to have gotten cold feet and burned an investigation, and made an enemy out of both the reporter and the FBI. And... sure, that's interesting! If it happened. None of that stuff is substantiated, it's just the reporters guesswork based on circumstantial evidence. It's a good story. It's an interesting story. It's not "news". And it's absolutely not something interesting or notable about the FBI (the entity that appears in the headline), which was just doing exactly the thing the FBI was created to do.