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[–]bobbobbybob 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I find that people use too many words to try and make them come across as <something>. And I can't be fucked with that ego BS any more. I'll read interesting things, but 90% of the written word is fluff, filler. pointless.

Information is key in this world.

not tall tales, self justification and self aggrandizement.

When an article starts to be more about the writer and their projections onto the subject, unless they are captivating, they are a waste of limited time.

too much un-moderated content.

a million monkeys might write shakespeare, but they hide it in a mountain of dross

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well most "journalists" are paid by the word, basically. They are paid to produce content regularly, so they do, even if most of it is fluff.

Unlike me, for example, where I only write an article when I have something to say, and sometimes I might go months without writing anything because I have nothing to say. An employed journalist doesn't have that luxury, so they end up producing noise that drowns out the signal, because they're required to as terms of their employment.