Is it such a travesty that someone decided to include a personal anecdote as a throughline? Does every article published need to be hard-hitting "journalism"?

Sometimes it's nice to listen to something with some personality, something that isn't so plain. I'm not in a rush today.

There's a whole world between "including a personal anecdote" and "making the entire article about your anecdote and sprinkling in some actual content"

No, I don't care about their kids and whether they are brave or not. What does that have to do with cockroaches? Who cares about their kids? Why are we even talking about kids here?

>> It's a transcript of a podcast.

> That's almost the perfect definition of "lazy journalism".

They produced, edited, interviewed multiple people including one of the people who worked directly on the project in question, and then provided a transcript of their conversation to make it accessible to a wider audience and that's lazy journalism?

Agree there was a lot of filler, but to be fair, your odd out-of-place zinger is just as annoying as the podcast. Fairly unattractive. And the cycle continues.

Except this is a comment section for discussion, so it's appropriate to discuss and point out this issue which IMHO contaminates nearly all forms of media today.