Learning how newspapers have progressed and slowly morphed into what they are today was very interesting to me. I assumed that objective reporting would have existed as long as the genesis of the newspaper. You have to wonder how long opinion was being used in news stories where opinion is not appropriate.
During the lecture I was surprised to discover the inverted pyramid continues to be the most widely used style of journalistic writing. The idea behind the inverted pyramid was to get the important information into the telegraph first so that if something prevented the reporter from putting their message into the telegraph, the important information would still make it to the publishers of the newspaper. Today, we really don't have the worry of being unable to deliver our news messages out to the media companies that produce them. As I thought more about this I decided that it really is not all that surprising that the inverted pyramid is still used today. What do people really want to know? They want to know the most important facts first. Unfortunately, some people are too lazy to search through an article to retrieve the main idea of the news.
Hey Mattie, I think that the way that this was written was vey insightful and interesting because it's all about perspective and how different people view different concepts. I agree with you on the inverted pyramid; everyone wants to catch the attention of others and starting out with a "bang" is something that's enticing and interesting.
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