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Re:What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team by mrep on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:26AM (#11916303)
Yes, but they aren't nearly as bad as the new yorker. A few weeks ago, I started to read this article on the hiroshima bombs and it started out awesome. However, after the few first paragraphs, they start going off on the life stories for each of the characters while adding tons of extraneous details. I gave up in frustration after 10 minutes of that crap. That's happened to me almost every time i go there so now I usually just autofilter new yorker articles out.

I've been trying to think of a new term for this type of writing as it's not quite clickbait but I haven't come up with anything quite as catchy.

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Re:What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team by nappy-doo on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:35AM (#11916381)
That's actually an incredible article that started the whole long-form news trend (1946). The New Yorker dedicated the entire issue to the story, and it's been republished as a book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)

I'd recommend you try and read it again.

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Re:What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team by andrewem on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:37AM (#11916391)
Sounds like you're referring to "Hiroshima", published as the entire editorial content of an issue of the New Yorker shortly after the war, later published as a book of the same title, and IMHO one of the most important magazine articles ever written. (For instance, here's an entire web site about that article: http://www.herseyhiroshima.com/index.php)
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