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Comment by a0zU | Hacker News Reader

The death of writing is a bullet-list of major points, put some effort in, maybe you'll become more interested in hockey after reading the article.

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But the pinnacle of journalism, the gold standard, the One True Way that's taught to every journalist - and then promptly forgotten when they go to work - is the Inverted Pyramid. The LOD/mipmapping equivalent for words: start with a very short summary of most important things. Then expand the details. Then expand them more. Repeat recursively.

The inverted pyramid is used for news stories. That is what you would expect from the NYTimes, CNN, or your local newspaper.

But The Atlantic isn't news stories. They are general interest essays. They are all long form stories that tell a narrative and dive deep into topics.

I loved the article and read it entirely, but I'm definitely even less interested in hockey now.

I enjoy reading well researched articles, just not all the time. The ideal would be this article with an alternate version, not the reduction of the article to the bullet points only. Books aren't dead just because wikipedia has a plot summary on every important one.

What I do in these cases is bookmark the article / save it elsewhere, and read it when I'm in a mood to digest a longer article. For what it's worth, I enjoyed the prose of this article and I would rather see more articles like it, than condensing everything to bullet points.

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