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Re:What's Happening to Reading? by barrkel on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:46PM (#44586078)
And it's the New Yorker that is frequently a culprit here. Too many articles talking about the journey the reporter went on to write their article. The low signal to noise ratio is a decent chunk of the reason I unsubscribed. Too few articles paid off.
Re:What's Happening to Reading? by SoftTalker on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @04:04PM (#44586247)
Any good sources for longform articles?
Re:What's Happening to Reading? by philipkglass on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @04:36PM (#44586555)
Read this if you have time to kill:

"Losing the War" by Lee Sandlin, about fading memories of World War II, originally published in 1997:

https://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm

I re-read it every couple of years. It's a hazard to my time just pulling up the link again because it's so long yet compelling.

Re:What's Happening to Reading? by uolmir on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @05:54PM (#44587216)
One of the best! If memory serves there was a This American Life segment excerpted from it too (https://www.thisamericanlife.org/195/transcript).
Re:What's Happening to Reading? by oasisaimlessly on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:50PM (#44588138)
Re:What's Happening to Reading? by kristjansson on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @04:35PM (#44586538)
They have a convention of prefacing articles with a category from their own taxonomy (“Personal History”, “Shouts and Mumurs”, “Reporter at Large”, “Talk of the town”, etc.) that signify the sort of article you’re going to get. In print this works well, as the heading is prominent, and each type occurs in a somewhat consistent order in the magazine, so you have a few clues you might be reading a type you dislike. I worry this hasn’t translated well to their online readership, and has contributed to a poorer reputation than they deserve.