It’s clearly just an outlet for people who wanted to become writers, but only had enough talent to manage becoming a journalist. I personally can’t stand it. The topic might be interesting, but the journalists prose isn’t.
I'm totally fine with story telling, but not in that context, it's not the place.
Or if you're going to, put the relevant stuff in the lede and then go into the narrative form. Just don't scatter and hide the meat and force the reader to go easter egg hunting.
Doing so might be good or bad story telling, I don't pretend to be an expert there, but it's certainly bad journalism.
That’s the point. If they had to market their creative writing on its own merit, nobody would read it. But here they’ve managed to bait several people ITT into reading it by lying about it being an article on a topic they were interested in.
