[sockhead]

I really hate "hide the ball" articles where you don't know what the subject is until you get a few paragraphs in. Not a good approach in an era when people are flooded with information as it is. So, I never did find out what his complaint was.

I despise this writing technique too. No one wants to tell anything straight anymore. Even basic news articles are written in such a convoluted way that it is difficult to piece together the point. Whatever happened to a thesis sentence up front? No wonder that attention spans are short.

[mumblypeg]

“Whatever happened to a thesis sentence up front?”

Journalism schools aren’t teaching the difference between news and editorial opinion anymore, so it’s no surprise the inverted pyramid has been tossed, too.
Everybody gets a participation diploma. Telling a student there are established standards, and that he’s doing it wrong, would be a hate crime.