Many paragraphs into the article and I still don’t know what important discovery or observation has been made
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How the Coronavirus Hacks the Immune System
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#12Many paragraphs into the article and I still don’t know what important discovery or observation has been made
This kind of reporting interleaved with storytelling in a really weird voice is frustrating. Why do journalists write like this? What purpose does this word salad serve? I can do this myself! "On a bald September day, a man walks into a barber shop, languishes at the occupied seats, and voilà, while sensing upcoming bowel movements, he discovers the next great theory of economics."
I suspect that it's a holdover from the past. There once was a time when many people had more time to read than they had stuff to read. This kind of writing was fine. Better than right-to-the-point writing, in fact, because it expanded the amount to be read without actually needing to have more to say.
Alternately, it's a way of expanding readership. If you don't know anything about molecular biology, they have to write an article at a layperson's level to explain what they mean. But if you, the reader, don't want to go through the effort of trying to understand even that, then there's this human-interest stuff that may still cause you to decide to buy their magazine.
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#13Many paragraphs into the article and I still don’t know what important discovery or observation has been made
If you're looking for the summary, it's about 1/4 the way in. > Usually, the viruses that humans care about are successful because they shut down both of these signalling programs. The coronavirus is different. “It seems to block only one of those two arms,” tenOever told me. It inhibits the interferon response but does nothing about the cytokines; it evades the local defenses but allows the cells it infects to call…
This would be the proper description for the spanish flu. But with Covid-19 it's different. No cykotine, but BK overreaction. Healthy immune systems are not triggered to kill the body, only weak and old are in danger. Besides the neurological damage in some.
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#14Many paragraphs into the article and I still don’t know what important discovery or observation has been made
This kind of reporting interleaved with storytelling in a really weird voice is frustrating. Why do journalists write like this? What purpose does this word salad serve? I can do this myself! "On a bald September day, a man walks into a barber shop, languishes at the occupied seats, and voilà, while sensing upcoming bowel movements, he discovers the next great theory of economics."
> Why do journalists write like this?
It's journalists writing for other journalists.
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This kind of reporting interleaved with storytelling in a really weird voice is frustrating. Why do journalists write like this? What purpose does this word salad serve? I can do this myself! "On a bald September day, a man walks into a barber shop, languishes at the occupied seats, and voilà, while sensing upcoming bowel movements, he discovers the next great theory of economics."
I find NPR guilty of the same. I want to hear a story about how fear affects the lives of primates. And it begins on a cool October day with thoughts of coffee.
...and a partisan obsession for relating every participant’s mask usage (or lack thereof).
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
This kind of reporting interleaved with storytelling in a really weird voice is frustrating. Why do journalists write like this? What purpose does this word salad serve? I can do this myself! "On a bald September day, a man walks into a barber shop, languishes at the occupied seats, and voilà, while sensing upcoming bowel movements, he discovers the next great theory of economics."
This is 'Long Form Journalism'. The 'dip in, dip out' paragraph structure is a dead giveaway. Not always what you're looking for but it can be a good way of cracking into a subject you're unfamiliar with, or a good way of merging the human element with something that would otherwise be quite dry. By no means a substitute for regular news, but a good complement to it.
"but a good complement to it"
Clearly a matter of opinion whether it's good.
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#17Many paragraphs into the article and I still don’t know what important discovery or observation has been made
This kind of reporting interleaved with storytelling in a really weird voice is frustrating. Why do journalists write like this? What purpose does this word salad serve? I can do this myself! "On a bald September day, a man walks into a barber shop, languishes at the occupied seats, and voilà, while sensing upcoming bowel movements, he discovers the next great theory of economics."
Logorrhoea.
In French, “logorrhée”, means literally “verbal diarrhoea”.
It’s symptomatic of people who have not much to say.
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#18Many paragraphs into the article and I still don’t know what important discovery or observation has been made
Indeed, lately I have lost my interest in reading long-reads, I just want to get to the point.
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#19Many paragraphs into the article and I still don’t know what important discovery or observation has been made
This kind of reporting interleaved with storytelling in a really weird voice is frustrating. Why do journalists write like this? What purpose does this word salad serve? I can do this myself! "On a bald September day, a man walks into a barber shop, languishes at the occupied seats, and voilà, while sensing upcoming bowel movements, he discovers the next great theory of economics."
The real question is who buys this BS?
George Orwell is turning in his grave...
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#20Off topic news: https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Supermarkets-in-...
"A row broke out in France over the weekend, after smaller shops selling “non-essential” items - such as books and clothes"
So now clothes and books are not essential. Its something we almost dont use. Who needs clothes ? Or books ? nobody of course
Thing is, everything is essential... if my water glasses break, it will be essential for me because i will need new ones.
I think its not fair to judge something is not essential just because me (or you) already have.
For example if somebody needs to move to a new house, the new house might be empty and at that moment everything is essential.. it will need water glasses, plates, etc..
The only essential thing it seems is to transmit the covid drama over television. And accept gov orders (or that "science") about what is considered essential or not. With that, its essential to punish the entreprenour. Entreprenour is that guy that built a company where me, you, your family work and feed from. When the entreprenour is screwed, the employees get screwed also because they will not be able to work... that will affect their families also because somebody lost a job and income. And not least important are the clients who might need something essential from that entreprenour store that was forced to close.