In net age, writers need to get to the point

Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell writes about how readers are increasingly complaining about anecdotal leads and wanting newspaper writers to get to the point, especially in the Internet era.

Ann Schappi of Alexandria wrote: "The interesting thing is that papers are more than a dozen years behind the news trends -- feature-style writing was a fine way to lure the 'non-news reader' into buying the paper in the pre-Internet days. Now, people are on information overload and used to Blackberry-screen-sized bits of meaning. So you better write tight and get to the point fast -- if you don't grab the readers' attention in the first one to three sentences, most aren't going to bother reading further."

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