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I'm reasonably certain that one does not have be a journalism major to manage to reach the 6th paragraph, about 550 words in, of a short (8 paragraph, 900 word)
by tzs 3y ago
I'm reasonably certain that one does not have be a journalism major to manage to reach the 6th paragraph, about 550 words in, of a short (8 paragraph, 900 word) article to find the "elaborate hidden twist".
Especially since the article mentions in paragraph 3 that people are mocking SBF for his requests, says in paragraph 4 that it is his own fault for repeatedly ignoring warnings from the judge that he might have his house arrest rescinded and go to jail to await trial if he didn't stop abusing his privileges, and starts paragraph 5 with a "Furthermore" indicating that the criticism of his complaints continue.
Then paragraph 6 starts with "However" telling you that maybe there is more to the story than SBF's ridiculous complaints and goes on to discuss how real mistreatment of prisoners is a serious problem.
So in fact one only has to make it past paragraph 2, about 180 words, to start finding out that this is not a "sob story" for SBF, and then even a bit of casual skimming will find the upcoming "Furthermore" and "However" paragraphs.
- anuraaga 3y agoThe article only talks about SBF and the supposes that there are others needing the same or more than him. There are no anecdotes or data for this though, usually you would at least expect some of "so and so has been in prison for 5 years and has been..." type of point. It really doesn't take a journalism major to see this is just a blog and may as well be a sob story for SBF since it does little more than that...