When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?

Re:When did writing in major newspapers become so bad? by 8fGTBjZxBcHq on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:34AM (#26387643)

So I don't know anything about this app really or its evaluations but I think applying it to acclaimed fiction is not a criticism of applying it to a newspaper article per se.

News articles are meant to convey concrete information relatively concisely. So metrics like sentence length and complexity and adverb count are at least in theory valid things for it to measure and aim to reduce.

Now whether it effectively measures those things I have no idea or opinion about. I didn't know it existed until ten minutes ago but if I had I definitely would have predicted that most highly respected fiction would break its rules all over the place.

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Re:When did writing in major newspapers become so bad? by matthewowen on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:15PM (#26389344)

This isn't a news article: it's a column, written by someone who's explicit remit is columns about the media industry.

It absolutely conforms to different rules than a news article on page A1.

I mean, I think it's bad writing too! But it'd be bad writing if it were in something like the New Yorker, too.

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