• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s the classic “human interest” hook that probably works with most people. I didn’t mind it, but yeah, it was long. The old a-spoonful-of-anecdote-helps-the-statistic-go-down method, but very poorly measured.

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      1 year ago

      It’s the classic “human interest” hook that probably works with most people

      But, like reality junk television, I didn’t really care about the people involved. Where these people ultimately work and live don’t affect any part of my life to where I’m actually interested in the details of the process. Any editor should have seen the copy, seen the headline, and then trimmed 2/3 from the front of the copy.