3 ms·
Bare with me here: Why is it that articles need to start with lines like > "The winter morning was cloaked in thick fog..." and postpone the actual informati
by ugh123 4y ago
Bare with me here:
Why is it that articles need to start with lines like
> "The winter morning was cloaked in thick fog..."
and postpone the actual information pertaining to the title? Instead, we have to sift through irrelevant story-like content to get to the meat of the information and facts.
Will one promise of tools like ChatGPT and their successors be to summarize-away this fluff?
- msla 4y ago> Bare with me here: Most people would pay money to ensure I don't. > Instead, we have to sift through irrelevant story-like content to get to the meat of the information and facts. Because journalists are frustrated novelists, and editors think the "human interest" angle sells.
- quackduck 4y ago> editors think the "human interest" angle sells. does it not?
- ugh123 4y agoWhen "human interest" means "keep scrolling to find the content while you look over our ads" then that angle gets less and less meaningful.
- malshe 4y agoI found it ironic that OP started complaining about the author’s writing style by urging us to bare it all!
- raymondgh 4y agoI had the same reaction. I read the first line of the article and instantly knew I didn’t have the patience to find the content implied by the title. There have been discussions here about this problem for recipe sites especially. What I wonder is whether the majority of their readers (non HN people) also feel annoyed by this.
- mparkms 4y agoIt's a travelogue, not a Wikipedia article. People read it for the fluff and prose.