I shadowed a reporter once who mentioned that they would put most of the information in the first paragraph and then go into more details because people are skimming and often don't get past the first couple paragraphs.
It is an extremely rare magazine article that would not be improved by cutting the first several paragraphs. My first step when reading any magazine article is finding the actual beginning.
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I guess magazine articles aren't really news though. They are somewhere between a news article and a novel.
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Same with YouTube videos. How does Wadsworth Constant vary by medium?
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Same here. I often search for how to [solve problem X with thing Y], then find articles with 2 paragraphs explaining what Y is, what the pro's and cons of Y are, how X might occur, and so on. Where the topic of the article is X in the first place. Infuriating.
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If you aren't already focused or currently have attention deficit, then those paragraphs help. That seems to be the only good thing about them.
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How do you define the actual beginning? - the point of initiation of a logical statement/argument/narrative? Or the author's context?
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the decision to start reading
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And many modern books could be turned into a long magazine article. That is all I have to say but if an editor wants me to expand to 5000 words will do so for $500.
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