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nytimes articles

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:55 pm
by appind
Anyone find that nytimes articles often end very abruptly as if incomplete or am i not getting the full article online?

I am referring to online articles at their web page that one can access without subscription (only the first few online articles, after that one needs subscription).

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:52 pm
by Desert Fox
appind wrote:Anyone find that nytimes articles often end very abruptly as if incomplete or am i not getting the full article online?

I am referring to online articles at their web page that one can access without subscription (only the first few online articles, after that one needs subscription).
It's a common journalistic method. You don't conclude things, you just stop.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:10 am
by BP Robert
Any examples? This isn't really something I've noticed, I'm curious.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 1:21 am
by McAvoy
Desert Fox wrote:
appind wrote:Anyone find that nytimes articles often end very abruptly as if incomplete or am i not getting the full article online?

I am referring to online articles at their web page that one can access without subscription (only the first few online articles, after that one needs subscription).
It's a common journalistic method. You don't conclude things, you just stop.
yah OP google "inverted pyramid" or read any newspaper, ever, to learn more

if this is because you can't "crack" the paywall then i'm going to assume boomer

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:17 am
by frasier
Often articles end with supplementary statements of fact, which do not fit into the overall flow of the article. Normal stuff.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:16 pm
by McAvoy
frasier wrote:Often articles end with supplementary statements of fact, which do not fit into the overall flow of the article. Normal stuff.
my character would pwn your character's goofy charlatan ass in a debate on any topic

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:00 pm
by appind
BP Robert wrote:Any examples? This isn't really something I've noticed, I'm curious.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/op ... &referrer=

This one is from op-ed a few days ago. Not as bad as some others but still should not an opinion not end this way as this is not a journalistic story.

Another abrupt ending, this time in a column.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/sc ... ?referrer=

Unexpected for column/opinion as they are different than news story?

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 4:48 pm
by McAvoy
I really don't know what you're talking about here kid. Are you expecting them to write "In conclusion" to start the final graph or something?

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:18 am
by appind
It's amusing when kids refer to others as kid. I don't know why you can't see the abruptness of ending, it's like a stream of consciousness writing which just ends. I can see that occurring when reporting a news story like some posters said but these are not news reportings.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/scien ... .html?_r=0

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:30 am
by McAvoy
Again, look up "inverted pyramid," kid. It is not a difficult concept. Every traditional news organization uses this method. You put the content in order of most important to least important so that the casual reader will have gleaned the most crucial facts of the story and the most relevant context for the topic if they move on to another story after the first few graphs, and so that, in order to fit stories into the print edition without constant revision, the editor can simply trim off graphs at the end until the story fits the page -- these graphs convey, after all, the least important content.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:12 am
by appind
McAvoy wrote:Again, look up "inverted pyramid," kid. It is not a difficult concept. Every traditional news organization uses this method. You put the content in order of most important to least important so that the casual reader will have gleaned the most crucial facts of the story and the most relevant context for the topic if they move on to another story after the first few graphs, and so that, in order to fit stories into the print edition without constant revision, the editor can simply trim off graphs at the end until the story fits the page -- these graphs convey, after all, the least important content.
This post doesn't even address the question and also rc fail. The articles are not news stories and the post just goes off about everything related to a story. Stop trolling and unnecessarily injecting things with no relevance to the op. It's not hard to understand what inverted pyramid is but does it apply here considering above. Your earlier post suggested that you think it's not abrupt ending, and now you seem to suggest that it's abrupt but acceptable.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 1:15 am
by patogordo
are you a dumb

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:49 am
by appind
patogordo wrote:are you a dumb
no, but you are, moron.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:00 am
by McAvoy
In line with patogordo's comment, I might suggest you try reading the USA Today more, instead.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 12:54 am
by appind
McAvoy wrote:In line with patogordo's comment, I might suggest you try reading the USA Today more, instead.
out-of-control evasive troll, you should be somewhere else Einstein.

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:05 am
by Subwaymonkey
I have the same problem regarding Brazzers videos....help please?

Re: nytimes articles

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:51 am
by KMart
Subwaymonkey wrote:I have the same problem regarding Brazzers videos....help please?
This made my night.