[pi3832]

Journalism is fucking dead. People write these days like they're Charles goddam Dickens and the page should be dense with their words. Like they're crafting great literature when in reality they're writing something that someone (with an iPad) will read while taking a crap at work.

Clarity. Precision. Transparent conveyance of content.

When writers turn in pieces for periodicals, they should be shocked with a voltage in equal proportion to the density of their prose.

[jrockway]

I like good writing. I can enjoy a good story and get ideas for how to write my own.

This is why I subscribe to real periodicals and try to read those in favor of blogs. For technical stuff, you can't go wrong with a blog. For general-interest topics, I've never found a blog worth reading.

[wallflower]

> For general-interest topics, I've never found a blog worth reading.

Check out Arts & Letters Daily

http://aldaily.com

[chrischen]

More precision requires more data.

[microcentury]

I think this is the first time I've seen the 'death of journalism' blamed on the writing being too _good_...