Please explain!
I read a lot of newspapers and magazines.
Some I enjoy exceedingly such as the UK’s Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Conde Nast Traveller, the US edition of Esquire, Vanity Fair, and lots more.
Some just make me cringe. One of the main reasons is that I have to try and figure out what the writers are saying in their convoluted way of story-telling. And worse still, they use terms I don’t understand.
OK, call me stupid, but can anyone tell me what these mean:
• non-renounceable entitlement offer
• management internalisation plan
• pre-emptive right provision
And that’s just from a couple of pages of a business section!
Why can’t newspapers do what the Wall Street Journal does, ie: explain everything, even a simple word like budget (and that in a financial newspaper)!
Why do lesser newspapers think they are beyond explanation? Remember the maxim we learned in our first days in journalism? Explain everything as if the reader is reading your story for the first time!
Whatever has happened to good journalism?
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