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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.
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.
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.
I guess Jack Donaghy’s trivection oven couldn’t save it.
What are you talking about? It was so successful that each vection became its own company.
This is the house that Jack Welch built, not Thomas Edison. Welch tore down anything that came before and threw up some particle board facades to convince the market there was a skyscraper there.
My father, in the final year of his life, was starting to go a bit. He was one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever met and he was extremely successful in his industry of mechanical engineering. The man understood business.
He talked about the fall of GE and how surprising it was (kinda like Boeing). It was a little bit interesting, but I excused myself cause I could see that his wandering mind was wandering. My brother stayed with him. I was in from far away and it was my only opportunity to see a very dear friend.
I wonder what my father would have said about this in his more lucid times. It probably would have been an interesting conversation.
I closed the article after it said “Jack Welch turned into an empire”, which he most certainly did not.
Jack Welch is the OG enshitification expert, destroying the entire company and sending it on a death spiral to raise shareholder value. GE went from a powerhouse to being the company new engineers worked for when they didn’t have any other prospects.
