Time to upend the inverted pyramid?

Mike Feinsilber wonders why more writers don't use a chronological structure, and he thinks he's found the reason: "Blame the inverted pyramid, the curse of journalism. It’s the chief cause for making news stories complicated, uninviting, and dull. The doctrine of the inverted pyramid holds that a news story should look like a pyramid turned upside down, with the most important element at the top and the less important elements following in descending order of importance."

September 28, 2014

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