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There's explainers, and then there's clickbait
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"Could “all you need to know” be the most insidious, reductive, and lame story formula currently conquering our reading life? Everywhere you turn there’s another purported ne plus ultra explainer purporting to tell us “absolutely everything we could possibly need to know” about some current event, some curiosity of history, some deep mystery of life on Earth. "
After WaPo's usual diatribe, some good points, particularly:
“The hazard of appealing to readers who feel stupid is that intelligent readers will get the feeling that you think they are stupid ....
History and current events are so lush and textured and deep and ambiguous; we can’t reject their marvelous complexity because we’re frustrated with the number of hits we get when we Google something."
- The absolute worst cliche online today - The Washington Post
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