Ms Cooperman has disdain for the "inverted pyramid" in the context of journalism -- which is fine -- but I sure wish more people would keep it in mind when they

Ms Cooperman has disdain for the "inverted pyramid" in the context of journalism -- which is fine -- but I sure wish more people would keep it in mind when they are engaged in back-and-forth conversation. Nothing screams arrogance more than making your interlocutors suffer through a long preamble before finally revealing what your point is.