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Comment by thraway12 | Hacker News Reader

My goodness. This is professional writing? The organization is terrible. The intro paragraph is about the blog, not the headline. The second paragraph is ponderous and useless: Chappelle = extraordinary. Seriously: that's a four line paragraph that's basically an emoji with a higher word count. The third paragraph is more of the same. Get to the point!

I basically checked out when I got to the topic sentence for point 3: "What is noteworthy about Chappelle’s argument is that he is quite ready to admit that everyone involved is acting legally." You can just hear the annoying Grammarly ad woman saying "this is sentence IS grammatically correct . . . " (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8CWdy-_2A)

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Yes, this writer desperately needs to read and consider the masterpiece: "Style: Toward Clarity and Grace".

Stratechery surfaces some interesting insights from time-to-time. But yes, the author's writing style consistently comes across as overly pedantic.

I just watched the clips. Dave is awesome.

Article is saying that he lays out the reason for owning the streaming rights.

He walked away from the show which presumably triggered a breach of contract. What happened to the rights may not be so clear.

Nah, it’s more likely that the contract was a Work For Hire setup, so the network owns the IP. His point about getting paid only as long as he was working there seems to indicate that. He doesn’t get royalties and he can’t touch the characters.

I’ve long said WFH in the arts has to die, but last time I wrote it in a HN thread I was accused to be a communist terrorist out to destroy the American way of life...

Yes, this is professional writing, which a lot of people pay for, because they appreciate his frequently very-insightful analysis. The intro paragraph is basically an ad because the free articles drive subscriptions for the paid ones. If you can't get past that, move on.

>"if you can't get past that, move on." What a nonsense attempt to shut down valid criticism. If you can't "get past" the fact that Hacker News enables comments, move on.

>"The intro paragraph is basically an ad because the free articles drive subscriptions for the paid ones"

He uses ", though," four separate times in a single post. Is that by design, because it's a free article?

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