On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:29:27PM +0000, jlange1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> Tux makes the cover!
>
> http://www.weeklyplanet.com
>
Is it just me, or do other people get annoyed by the way articles like
this are written? "Joe Jones is a blah blah. Yadda yadda yadda....
Linux...." They start in with this spotlight on one person (who may only
have some ancillary relation to the story), and then slowly circle
around to the point of the article, which always occurs a few paragraphs
down, and sometimes not until the end of the article.
Note: I'm not running down Trevor's writing ability at all, nor Robin's
role in the Linux story. It's just that I don't know how many stories
I've read that read just like this one. Some guy is focused on in the
first few paragraphs, and then eventually you get to why that guy has
anything to do with the point of the story, and then you finally get to
the point of the story. Is this something they teach in journalism
school? Is there any real rationale behind it, or is it simply the way
everyone's always done it?
Again, nothing against Trevor. Obviously he's not the only person who
writes this way. I just can't figure out why journalists do this. I
really would prefer to have my facts served up in a rapid, clear,
orderly fashion, without a lot of extraneous cruft. Nothing against
Robin either, but it's not really important to the overall Linux story
for me to know that Robin has a big belly, drove a cab, and lives in a
double-wide. A story without Robin, or Bill, or me, or Smitty would have
conveyed the essential information adequately.
Maybe I'm the only one.
Paul
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