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Posted on January 10, 2010 | tags

 
 

Politics: We’re going to cut down an Atlantic story about cutting down stories

  • 89 ShortFormBlog’s word count
  • 1,844 Michael Kinsey’s word count
  • one Newspaper stories are too long and filled with too much flowery language.
  • two Too much space is devoted to attributing quotes and trying to balance the story.
  • three People are often quoted saying obvious things to push the story’s main points.
  • four Back in the day, journalists used inverted pyramid writing style; now we don’t.
  • five Michael Kinsey wrote a long story about how stories are too long. source