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I sometimes feel there is a peculiar and rare speech/writing disorder endemic to writers and editors of the NYT which causes them to express everything they are
by bluekeybox 15y ago
I sometimes feel there is a peculiar and rare speech/writing disorder endemic to writers and editors of the NYT which causes them to express everything they are trying to say in the most "litterary" (as in "litter") way possible.
You thought Victorian English was verbose, ornate, and unnecessarily obscure? Try the modern NYT! Shorter sentences but longer nearly everything else.
- aba_sababa 15y agoWhat's the problem? I enjoyed "like a hitchhiker's thumb that lost its way". And that opening paragraph was badass.
- notatoad 15y agoIt's not specific to NYT, you see it in any newsmagazine type article. Washington post and Boston globe are also big offenders. I can just imagine them sitting around some pub drinking expensive liquor and talking about how bloggers will never be able to replace the sort of serious, high quality journalism they do. The snobbery is jut dripping off every word in that article.