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[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 61 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've never read an article describing what it was like to interview someone that didn't sound like the author jerking off in literature format.

Idk when this trend started but it needs to stop. There are fanfics that are better.

[–] driving_crooner 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Kinda lucky he wasn't expecting meeting a woman or half the paragraph would be about how he expected the bounce of her breast were.

[–] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

as she reached her hand out to shake mine, her breasts bounced boobily

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

She was sexy and she didn’t even know it

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They all think they're the current Hunter S Thompson.

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Ugh the current intro to Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 was written by Matt Taibbi and exalts the book for exactly this reason. I was reading it and screaming "shut up! None of you will ever be this cool!" In my head the whole time

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I took a multimedia class and learned that a NYT article called Snow Fall popularized using multimedia in the the long form Journalism genre.

I don’t know who popularized long form journalism itself, but I’ve had multiple instances where I tried to look up information about an ongoing mass shooting and the front page is just articles detailing some guy’s daily routine getting interrupted by a shooting. Like motherfucker. Can you not wait until it’s over to do this shit. Or at least Google not push this shit to the front instead of to the point information about a killer.

I understand why cooking recipes do this shit now. Sure, part of it is SEO, but the other has to be pretentiousness