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General Electric completes split into 3 public companies Tuesday
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This writing style at axios is nearly unreadable. It's like they're trying to turn an article into a bulleted list. I generally appreciate a bulleted summary at the top of an article, but not like this.
That is annoying as hell.
Bad site, no clicks.
NPR is steaming down the "condescending" path now too, with their daily headlines of the form "XYZ, what you need to know" and "what to know about ABC" .... as in (today) "What to know as jury selection begins ..." . I'm just like, "FU NPR, I don't need you to dictate to me the things that are important or not important to me, I'll make that call, your job is simply to fill in the blanks when and if asked, no more and no less."
Yeah I’ve basically stopped reading axios because I find their articles to be condescending more than anything else. If you can’t trust your readers to understand a short article without spoon feeding them with silly bullets like this, you don’t deserve my limited attention. Their articles are harder to read now, which is clearly the opposite of their intent.
On the other hand, when people right here on Lemmy rarely read past the headlines, maybe it deserves others' attention?
Yeah, I can definitely see that. Personally, I’d rather they just write a normal narrative article and then have a summary with these bullets or something at the end. Maximal accessibility.
It’s based on their idea of communication theory. imo it’s useful in some contexts. Here, not so much.