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scroll to the sixth paragraph to get to the point. modern journalism...
Re:Atmospheric carbon dioxide passes 400ppm on Thursday September 29, 2016 @05:37PM (#12608965)
no reason why it should sound like that.
I suggest that author's personal experience does not give any insight into large phenomena affecting many more lives than the author's own that could not otherwise and more succinctly come forward without the addition of the overly personal voice into the prose.

This style of delivering information is called gonzo journalism and has taken over a large part of the media. What people forget is that gonzo journalism was initially a form of entertainment. The kind of prose that serves telling the readers about the Kentucky Derby is not same that serves the conveying of information in a large number of categories. This is one of them.

Re:WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @09:56AM (#10655711)
You would think that is the reason, and not the fact that their matching service can only appropriate value into the company if the two peers being matched can not effectively coordinate themselves?
Re:CrowdProcess: HTML5 supercomputer on Friday November 27, 2015 @07:48AM (#10637043)
In your opinion, could the moral problem be solved by websites displaying an alert, similarly to the alerts for cookies policy mandated by the EU?