> 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.
<snip>
> 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
I think this is what they call "the human interest angle." It helps sucker in people who don't give a shit about linux or computers or how maraschino cherries are really made, and they don't realize about what they're reading until it's too late, gwahaha. Doesn't it remind you of that Simpsons episode where Bart's a news anchor?
Levi
(Don't mind me, I relate everything in life to Futurama or Simpsons)
(BTW, Futurama is now on Cartoon Network Sun-Thurs at 2300 - wahoo!)
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