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I particularly love how the chronological order of events ends up being wrong in a lot of articles. It usually starts with an article being written in not-chro
by chmod775 4y ago
I particularly love how the chronological order of events ends up being wrong in a lot of articles.
It usually starts with an article being written in not-chronological order, jumping ahead at first, rewinding, maybe sprinkling in a few interludes, and then some journalist hastily copying it assumes it's in chronological order(?) and gets everything completely wrong. A common theme with accident reports involving something the journalist in question clearly doesn't understand.
- bombcar 4y agoThere’s a “hook, early life, side story, actual thing in the headline” style that is SO common in “long form” journalism and I hate it with the passion of a thousand suns.
- overlordalex 4y agoWhat you're describing is actually the artefact of a popular method of organising information in articles called the inverted pyramid[1]. Essentially what happens is the chronological order is discarded in favour of ordering the information by perceived importance > It is sometimes called a summary news lead style, or bottom line up front (BLUF).[3] The opposite, the failure to mention the most important, interesting or attention-grabbing elements of a story in the opening paragraphs, is called burying the lede. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)