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Originally Posted by Pazuzu
"The good old days"? You mean, newspapers? My newspaper, which I read every day, is filled with articles which start with the who what why and where and when. They don't just take the online, "quick bite of data" jump and reprint it, the actual paper articles are usually greatly expanded, rewritten, and contain an accumulation of information from the 12-24 hours since the event happened, so they're cohesive and complete.
Maybe you need a newspaper subscription?
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We subscribe to the local electronic version of the paper. They had such problems delivering the analog paper we switched. We would get the morning paper in the evenings or not at all. Sometime just the Sunday paper showed up. The Electronic version is better, but there was no Sunday paper last week. Even days later, they did not put it up.
The local paper, The Daily Oklahoman was once a powerhouse of local politics. The family they owned it saw the future of papers and sold. It was sold several times, and now is part of the USA Today network.
And like my comments earlier, the majority of the articles start with how someone feels or some other total waste of time. The 5 Ws are never used.
There are several good local reporters, but I mostly see the poorly written national articles. They regularly have an article about a business and nowhere in the article to they mention where it is. The metro area is well over 1,000 square miles. And it does matter Who, What, Where, When and Why of a story.