People that write news articles now-a-days are increasingly ****ing me off.

I remember a course I took in journalism or something eons ago. It
taught that the basic "5 W's" (who, what, where, when, why) should all
be outlined in the first paragraph with the rest of the article filling
in details as known.

Today it seems that an enticing headline is assigned to an article but
the first four or five paragraphs are meaningless lead-ins to the meat
of the story. I get bored reading the drivel and move on to the next
article usually only to find the same style of writing.

On 2/1/15 10:02 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

People that write news articles now-a-days are increasingly ****ing me off.

I remember a course I took in journalism or something eons ago. It
taught that the basic "5 W's" (who, what, where, when, why) should all
be outlined in the first paragraph with the rest of the article filling
in details as known.

Today it seems that an enticing headline is assigned to an article but
the first four or five paragraphs are meaningless lead-ins to the meat
of the story. I get bored reading the drivel and move on to the next
article usually only to find the same style of writing.

I find what you are relating annoying, too, especially on hard news
reportage. My old city editor, Casey Jones, would skin a reporter alive
for burying the lead on a hard news story.



--
Proud to be a Liberal.

wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:02:44 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


People that write news articles now-a-days are increasingly ****ing me off.

I remember a course I took in journalism or something eons ago. It
taught that the basic "5 W's" (who, what, where, when, why) should all
be outlined in the first paragraph with the rest of the article filling
in details as known.

Today it seems that an enticing headline is assigned to an article but
the first four or five paragraphs are meaningless lead-ins to the meat
of the story. I get bored reading the drivel and move on to the next
article usually only to find the same style of writing.

It bothers me when the guy writing the headline did not seem to have
read the story. I agree they do seem to dribble out the facts of the
story to the point that you have to read it all to figure out what the
hell went on and sometimes you are still not sure.

What ****es me off is the bias in the writing. I do not mind bias in
columnist or editorial. But a news report should be a report. Not a
slanted to reporters bias piece. Why is it always an SUV caused an
accident? Not the driver. Or a Prius is always the victim? Yesterday a
Prius passes the car in front of me on the right, parking lane, while
exceeding the speed limit. If he had hit an SUV, would have been reported
as SUV accident. Bias!

On 2/1/2015 2:40 PM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:02:44 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


People that write news articles now-a-days are increasingly ****ing me off.

I remember a course I took in journalism or something eons ago. It
taught that the basic "5 W's" (who, what, where, when, why) should all
be outlined in the first paragraph with the rest of the article filling
in details as known.

Today it seems that an enticing headline is assigned to an article but
the first four or five paragraphs are meaningless lead-ins to the meat
of the story. I get bored reading the drivel and move on to the next
article usually only to find the same style of writing.

It bothers me when the guy writing the headline did not seem to have
read the story. I agree they do seem to dribble out the facts of the
story to the point that you have to read it all to figure out what the
hell went on and sometimes you are still not sure.

What ****es me off is the bias in the writing. I do not mind bias in
columnist or editorial. But a news report should be a report. Not a
slanted to reporters bias piece. Why is it always an SUV caused an
accident? Not the driver. Or a Prius is always the victim? Yesterday a
Prius passes the car in front of me on the right, parking lane, while
exceeding the speed limit. If he had hit an SUV, would have been reported
as SUV accident. Bias!


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On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:40:27 -0600, Califbill wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 10:02:44 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


People that write news articles now-a-days are increasingly ****ing me off.

I remember a course I took in journalism or something eons ago. It
taught that the basic "5 W's" (who, what, where, when, why) should all
be outlined in the first paragraph with the rest of the article filling
in details as known.

Today it seems that an enticing headline is assigned to an article but
the first four or five paragraphs are meaningless lead-ins to the meat
of the story. I get bored reading the drivel and move on to the next
article usually only to find the same style of writing.

It bothers me when the guy writing the headline did not seem to have
read the story. I agree they do seem to dribble out the facts of the
story to the point that you have to read it all to figure out what the
hell went on and sometimes you are still not sure.

What ****es me off is the bias in the writing. I do not mind bias in
columnist or editorial. But a news report should be a report. Not a
slanted to reporters bias piece. Why is it always an SUV caused an
accident? Not the driver. Or a Prius is always the victim? Yesterday a
Prius passes the car in front of me on the right, parking lane, while
exceeding the speed limit. If he had hit an SUV, would have been reported
as SUV accident. Bias!

Agreed. Seems the 'journalists' all have to get their political bent at the front of
the article, rather than the facts.
--

Guns don't cause problems. The behavior
of certain gun owners causes problems.

Most so called journalists today are opinion writers. Their stories are full of opinions and relects their bias. There are very few if any who follow the 5 W's we were taught way back when.