Re: Hallmark actress Mamie Laverock, 19, on life support ...

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2405290101470.3914@panix3.panix.com>,
 danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

[NY's Hometown Paper]
 
Subject: Hallmark actress Mamie Laverock, 19,
     on life support after falling 5 stories from balcony
 
New York Daily News
 
Actress Mamie Laverock, best known for playing Rosaleen Sullivan on
Hallmark Channel series "When Calls the Heart," is on life support
following a devastating fall.
 
HALLMARK ACTRESS MAMIE LAVEROCK, 19, ON LIFE SUPPORT AFTER FALLING 5
STORIES FROM BALCONY
 
Actress Mamie Laverock, best known for playing Rosaleen Sullivan on
Hallmark Channel series "When Calls the Heart," is reportedly on life
support following a devastating fall on Sunday.

This is what drives me nuts about "modern journalism".

We have a subject/headline that tells us she's on life support after
falling from a balcony.

Then the article starts and adds one more detail-- what she's best know
for-- before repeating that she's on life support after falling from a
balcony.

Then another all-caps headline which repeats again that she's on life
support after falling from a balcony.

Then the second paragraph of the article which just repeats what she's
best known for before saying for *fourth* time that she's on life
support after falling from a balcony without adding any additional
details or facts of any kind.

So now I'm halfway down the page and I've read the same damn thing four
different times and I still don't know any more about the story than I
did when I started.

And every online news article is like this. Headlines, subheadlines, and
several paragraphs go by all of which just keep repeating the same
information over and over.