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And I wanted to be an aerospace engineer who designed and flew his own spaceships. Sometimes stuff doesn't work out. These are "template articles." Usually y
by pragmatic 18y ago
And I wanted to be an aerospace engineer who designed and flew his own spaceships.
Sometimes stuff doesn't work out.
These are "template articles." Usually you find these on the front page of msn.com not hacker news.
Find a person that fits template, big goals and dreams then X happened where X is drugs, economic downturn, accident, etc. Then move into how the world is scary and random, then get "expect advice." End with final quote about how world is scary and random.
- TooMuchNick 18y agoThen watch the commenters divide into two camps: 1. "X affected me. The world is scary and random." 2. "X did not affect me. You should have voted for Ron Paul."
- quoderat 18y agoYou're right. Most journalism is template articles (said as a former journalist).
- lallysingh 18y agoSo this could be adapted for generating said generic pieces: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
- steveplace 18y agoThe blackhat seo side of me starts thinking of ideas with this...
- vitaminj 18y agoYeah I thought this article was from the Onion.