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The good and the bad at the Huffington Post

Megan Garber at CJR.org pointed to this Huffington Post downmarket classic: Walrus Oral Sex: Pleasures Self In Sex Act At Aquarium (VIDEO) (NSFW) But the desperate-to-aggregate-audience HuffPo also does some innovative things. Note this Nov. 29 tweet from Robert Scoble: Why is the Huffington Post gaining readers in droves? Look how it covers Tiger vs [...]

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Fri, January 8 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off

Newspaper stories are too long. Maybe, but they have to be

Longtime U.S. journalist Michael Kinsley had an 1,800-word piece in the Atlantic complaining that newspaper articles are too long and wordy Alas, it doesn't have an extractable nut graf, so read the whole thing and draw your own conclusions. But I would say that in general, brevity is better, redundancy should be reduced, all with a [...]

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