Once upon a time, journalism was part of the NEWS business. They were supposed to INFORM you and so they included the basic INFORMATION right up front.
Today, it's all entertainment and the equivalent of click bait.
It might never occur to them to tell you anything. They just want to snag your attention for awhile. Nothing else matters.
There are some that care about blog click bait, there should be a brigade that pounds any thread where the ‘who what when where why and how’ isn’t attended to clearly in the excerpt or first post.
It’s hard for me to imagine someone looking back from the year 2050 and thinking that the rise of the 24 hour news cycle was this great thing for society.
Freegards