Long articles are usually not worth the read. The authors never make a direct point and use just as many adjectives and adverbs and inner monologue thoughts as they can without ever making a point or adding new material the conversation.
Have it your way.
Well said.
Yeah. I admit that my attention span isn’t what it used to be. But I would like articles to open with, “The key supporting effort that will win Trump a second term is the legal case heading to the Supreme Court next week which involves the 14th Amendment (or whatever)” and then they can blather on and say “To understand why, we need to go back to Kansas in 1923, to a small town where a young school teacher first had an interesting idea …”
I can handle a lot of obscure digression, but I like to have a sense of where it is all going. If the article starts out vague and just gets flowery, I lose interest fast.