QUOTE: Dan Drezner:
"Is it just me, or have a lot of online news sites started parsing their stories into more than one page? It used to be just the New York Times, but now the Washington Post is doing it too.
Is this a sign of prestige? Am I, as a reader, supposed to be wowed by the fact I get to click a couple more times to look at the whole story? Is this going to make me think, "Wow, it took five clicks to read the whole story. That's quality journalism.""
Hey, it works for The Nation. I generally read the first page of a story there, then see that there are four more pages in which they'll explain to me how I'm secretly abetting *'s agenda without even knowing it. Why do I read the Nation again, anyway*?
*Because I actually happen to agree with them on a large number of issues... they just happen to be so repellent when it comes to tone that I just can't look away.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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