[pm90]

It depends on what kind of media sources you're looking at.

Long form media (like the New Yorker) are generally better at being somewhat exhaustive with their sources. Newspapers...are almost entirely narrative driven but do include the factual description of at least one event around which the stories are based. "Instant" media (e.g. Twitter, TikTok) is even more extreme in being narrative driven.

Because of the time commitment involved in consumption, I suspect that long form journalism won't ever get the audience that other types of media gets.

[rayiner]

I quite disagree. Long form media tend to be just very long narratives. Newspapers are narrative wrapped around a single factual event, to fit that event into a preferred narrative.

Tweets can be narrative driven, but sometimes they’re centered around some primary source document or chart or something like that, and in that case they can be far more useful than a newspaper article.

My view these days is give me the primary sources or GTFO. For example, I don’t trust you to tell me what’s in a court filing—the first thing in your article better be a link to the filing itself and you had better actually quote the source material.

[remarkEon]

The lack of a link to the source material is the quickest way to get me to stop reading and mash that back button.