Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Kris Classen, my good friend and 1 of 2 dedicated readers of the site, offers the following analysis of my previous post.
regarding the news post, he [Paul Graham] is mostly correct for the type of news that makes TV…. they dont have much actual analysis, and they favor worthless human interest stories… however, good papers like the wash post and the NY times actually have interesting articles because the authors bother to do research to add context and meaning to those meaningless presidential speeches… likewise any other specialty publications that focus on their topic (like even the shuttle article you have)—the writers who take the time to do a good job produce an interesting product… i think the bottom line for the guy you are quoting is that he just isnt interested in politics, so he finds politics stories to be uninteresting….
I like Kris’ idea that the value of good reporting is adding context in explaining why things like political speeches happen. As you can see, Kris is a fan of the ellipsis (at least, in email).
