Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Cut This Story! - The Atlantic (January/February 2010)

One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news.

Sudden urge to go edit (green) something.

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