A Washington Post reporter has hammered The New York Times's India correspondent Somini Sengupta, for among other things, her purple prose.
Why just Sengupta? All NYT reporters fashion such doggerels ad nauseam. I'm on paragraph four or five of a page one story and I'm thinking, "Hello? Where's the news? Where's this going? Where is the 'why' this story is being written?" Such stories have become so tiresome that I have stopped reading anytime a story begins something like this:> <>
It is early, just 10 am, >
but the African sun
is already high
in the sky,
when Kwame sits on his haunches
after his morning munchies,
under a baobab tree to defecate
and contemplate his fate.
I have been forced to use annoying 'colour' leads many a time even when I'm writing a business story, but at least I 'try' and make the colour somewhat relevant and 'try' and keep it to a minimum. This 'colouring' of news stories is a horrendous and dangerous trend me(humbly)thinks. Wait? Trend? It has already become the norm.
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