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
