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Originally Posted by rkomar
I don't like saying it, but it's the standard of the audience that is the problem. No one wants the detailed story these days. I'm a "reader", but I have to think it over a lot before attempting a double page spread of a story in a newspaper. We just want something that strikes the right emotional chords in as few words as possible. I don't blame the journalists for not being able to overcome that.
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I'm not so sure that the standard of the audience is lower than in the past. And in any event there is not just one audience.
Jim Hacker on who reads newspapers