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No, definitely not, I think it's called narrative journalism [1] and I personally cannot stand it. My favourite is Colette's view on how to write a newspaper story (via Georges Simenon [2]):

> Just one piece of general advice from a writer has been very useful to me. It was from Colette. I was writing short stories for Le Matin, and Colette was literary editor at that time. I remember I gave her two short stories and she returned them and I tried again and tried again. Finally she said, “Look, it is too literary, always too literary.” So I followed her advice. It’s what I do when I write, the main job when I rewrite.

> INTERVIEWER: What do you cut out, certain kinds of words?

> Adjectives, adverbs, and every word which is there just to make an effect. Every sentence which is there just for the sentence. You know, you have a beautiful sentence—cut it. Every time I find such a thing in one of my novels it is to be cut.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_journalism

[2] https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5020/the-art-of-fi...




Its in the 'Long Reads' section. This is a feature, not a news story.


Yeah, my wording was not perfect, but I can imagine that Georges Simenon was not using adjectives and the like for news stuff only.




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