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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Some of the problems is the writing itself. They have a headline, and then numeroius paragraphs of fluff before they discuss the main part of the article. They like to bury what little information they have in a long article that is 10 times longer than necessary.
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I have had a similar argument with my father who worked for one of the local TV channels. I have said for years that you only need to watch the first 5 min of the news to get ALL of the news for the day, the remaining 25 minuets are just a video magazine full of special interest fluff stories.
A tragic example was after the Aurora Theater shooting, (A very sad story), the station had a
two minuet story where they interviewed somebody who had tickets for that show at the Aurora Theater, but because of a flat tire didn't make it to the theater. Showed video of the car, a beige Buick, and of the tire, yep it looked unusable. Even had an quick section on how disappointed the little brother (20 or so years old) was that because of the flat they were missing the move.