[central_va]

Because journalism is dead. It so fluffy it is almost airheaded. Journalists think everyone has the attention span of a gnat. So they write like we are third graders.

[texas booster]

I prefer to think that journalists write like that, with the attention span of a gnat, because they project their internal self - and can't or don't know how to write better than that.

See what a great and expensive college education gets you from J-School?

Yep, bupkis.

[huldah1776]

The young do have short attention spans. You would think they would want to write so well the young would stay attentive.

[Robert DeLong]

I hear that, and agree with your assessment. One of the reason journalism is dead as a door nail.

[ViLaLuz]

Journalists think everyone has the attention span of a gnat. So they write like we are third graders.
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So true. Journalists are taught to write to the lowest common denominator, hence the motto “write to Jethro.”