I read a story in the drudge report about a 74 year old man flying a 1940’s airplane in a race and was involved in a accident. The article framed that there was something wrong with the plane rather than the man being too old to fly an airplane. People died because of a mistake in the pilot or aircraft and it’s something that they can never get back. To me they should just have told the truth and did a little investigating to see what happened. I think that there are no more investigative journalism out there anymore. People have their own lives to think about and journalists just don’t care anymore. The news always slants in the direction they want to follow and I think it’s wrong. They should just print the truth and nothing else.
Hey, Cal. Not sure if you are doing this on purpose or not, but the black font color on the black background obviously makes reading these posts pretty difficult!
ReplyDeleteIf you aren't doing it on purpose, we can certainly talk about how to reset your default font so that this doesn't keep happening. If you *are* doing it on purpose, then I'd ask you to consider what the effect is for readers. If you are making it intentionally difficult for someone to read what you write, some people are going to give up. Others may actually want to read what you write even more -- like trying to decode a message, or solve a mystery.
That can be a powerful thing, actually, but then you have to be prepared to deliver. What I mean is, if you create a desire in readers to want to see what you are writing about enough to try to overcome obstacles that you deliberately put in their way, then the writing had better deliver, or people aren't going to bother a second or third time.
It's like telling one of those super involved jokes that goes on and on and on, until everyone realizes that the "joke" is that there actually is no joke. People laugh at these jokes, but they aren't likely to want to hear another one anytime soon.
Again, I'm not sure what your intention is here, but in either case, I'd suggest not continuing doing posts like this for too long.