Journalism is fucking dead. People write these days like they're Charles goddam Dickens and the page should be dense with their words. Like they're crafting great literature when in reality they're writing something that someone (with an iPad) will read while taking a crap at work.

Clarity. Precision. Transparent conveyance of content.

When writers turn in pieces for periodicals, they should be shocked with a voltage in equal proportion to the density of their prose.