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by pcunite 3898 days ago
TL;DR

Get to the point in the first paragraph or I'll make you take an online newspaper writing course.

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He must be reading better newspapers than I am, because in my experience newspapers never get to the point. They just restate the headline using more and more words until they have filled up the available space. It's like they've been written with the assumption that you're going to bail out after the first 500 words, and so the rest doesn't matter.