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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

Part of our global dumbing down is the assumption no one wants to read anything anymore. This leads to ever briefer articles. Which sucks, since the world is too complicated to be understood through soundbites alone. However, if you invest time in decent writing & do the measurements, you find that tens of thousands of people DO read 3200 word posts straight through to the end:

Graph showing the reading density of a blog post. There is a peak at the very beginning, after which lots of readers bail. But for the rest of the article, the density is mostly flat, indicating that the readers that made it through the first 2% mostly stuck around till the end.
Cassandrich

@bert_hubert Premise is false. The root cause is that reading the longform articles is pointless. They're all filler and fluff aside from one or two sentences of information. If you expand the article to read the detailed facts enough times and find no facts, just drivel and language intended to manipulate your opinion, you learn to stop expanding them.

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Cassandrich

@bert_hubert Sorry I guess I'm kinda bitter about the state of journalism.

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