Never thought I’d find an article I truly hate (Clip File 4/15)
So….NPR. I don’t normally go their to find articles but maybe listen to some cartalk or some other show. But I figured why not get a little variety in where I get my news for this clip file project. Boy did I look on the wrong day. “Is There Gold In Them There ‘Grillz’?” is perhaps one of the worst articles that I have ever read. Not to bash anyone but Youth Radio should have higher standards than this. First of all using a picture of Lil Wayne for the article made me think that the article might be about him. But no. The article was in fact about the person writing it. This is just the start of my confusion as I read on. The quotes were simply stupid. That was another annoying part of the article. They made little sense and were written in Ebonics (great journalism there). The article was almost too fast paced for me. It jumped around, moved between people who it was quoting. Even as I write this I don’t know where to go since the article was really this bad.
“Is this your first time seeing a grill?” I asked.
“Yes,” Ross replied.
Who quotes like that? It may be a feature story but should each of these tiny quotes really matter? They can write that in one short sentence. Now I know that this article was written for a younger audience, but still. That doesn’t mean it can be this terribly written. Now I understand what the article is talking about, but it is just all over the place and really irritates me. The writer goes on for about half a page talking about how his grill was real gold and his friend’s was fake. Why? Just why? What a waste of a page. I feel I’m starting to rant so I’m going to cut this short. Even though this article was written for younger readers it was still horrible. The idea of the story had some potential “grills in society” but it didn’t deliver. It turned into the writer describing one event for way too long. As my title suggests I never thought that I’d find an article I truly hate. =)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120986492
