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Websites with mostly lone-headlines are not for me, if one had to click on each headline just to expand and glance at opening paragraph. Carefully written open
by egberts1 4y ago
Websites with mostly lone-headlines are not for me, if one had to click on each headline just to expand and glance at opening paragraph.
Carefully written opening paragraph that is devoid of leading adverbs and adjectives … gets my reading attention. (Goes to show unbiased and dryness).
With reading attention the. opened up, one can start further analytical digest mode.
That moment when first paragraph fails objectively, the interest in reading the rest of the article goes way down.
The moment that the second paragraph deviates from the opening, the mind reaches near zero interest.
If it on the topic relevant to my interest, such failed articles often gets a speed read for capture words on remaining paragraphs.
White papers, grok ‘em all the time. Yellow journalism, not so much.
Sadly, Axios website layout and its writers fail consistently, given the input guidelines that I have set.
Time is money (at least for me).
But targeting the mass is still money for some.