[SilasX]

And yet you can’t give examples of the relevant facts that are in the NYer but not the Resgister (style of CEO’s jacket doesn’t count).

I know people have different preferences. But beliefs —about which articles lead to productive discussions — can be confused. No one is spending the hour to read this before commenting. Expecting that is a bad idea.

[notzuck]

I didn't care about this based on the register's reporting because they are nobodies. I cared about it based on the newyorkers because they told me the whole story.

Different things are useful at different times. Today that useful thing happened to be the long form journalism rather than than the twitter form journalism.