I agree. I don't even mind short paragraphs because I think they can be used for good effect but not if it's every single paragraph.

It just strikes me as lazy writing. If each sentence is its own paragraph then you don't have to worry about structuring the article well or writing transitions or intro/outro sentences.

It’s called broetry.

This maybe just an anecdotal conjecture, but I've noticed this a lot lately with many news sites. It seems that with the advent of social media and smart phones, our attention spans have drastically shortened. Now all the articles have paragraphs that are 2-3 sentences long.

In between which are often gratuitous photos and ads.

I think if anything, you need a longer attention span to read articles like this. I can no longer quickly skim through an article to get the gist. Instead I have to read every single "paragraph" because there's no way to know which ones are worth reading. That's much slower and requires much more attention.

exactly. It's a totally misguided style. I guess it's supposed to make it easier to read, but instead (to me) it makes it absolutely painful. In my mind's ear I hear this giant Captain Kirk dramatic pause after each sentence. So bad.

I am also guilty of this. Can you give me an example of a blogpost you enjoyed reading?

London Review of Books has quite a few.