idk how related this is to the specific question you're asking but a problem with the latter is how they very often omit full copies of cited/quoted documents despite being nominally public (like court filings etc) that are very time-consuming and/or expensive to obtain copies of
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I never thought about that - this seems to be a strength of informal youtube uh journalists (having a culture of linking original sources for claims)
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My educated guess is that you would be drawn to an article if you saw any such thing. Long form journalism is overwhelmingly garbage as we both know.
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it’s sad when things manage to be even more fake than peer-reviewed science papers
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Yeah. You wait for the Twitter thread. If you can't do that, then start by reading the first then the final paragraph, then read section headings and topic sentences until you get the gist of the thing. Idea is to intelligently sample to figure out whether to read in depth.
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the usual thing is I start skimming at the first scene-setting storytelling event (usually first paragraph) and never know when to stop skimming
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stories are about the journey the story takes you through science papers tend to be more to-the-point (although explaining that point at length iteratively) so they have a quite different idea of "substance"
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a thing that might work: ctrl-f names / locations / nouns related to the thing that you know from elsewhere
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Sometimes longform journalism is very specifically structured to make teasing out the key details easier i.e. broken out into titled sub-sections with 'key facts' and illustrations when its not, they're usually throwing spaghetti / relying on anecdotes
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This Reuters 'Special Report' on the ACT/SAT Test-Prep scandal of 2016 is an example of "the best kind", imo Its voluminous, but is broken out into 9 separate pieces on different aspects of the story, each of which have their own sidebars + FAQshttps://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/college-sat-one/ …
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