I was scrolling through Facebook and saw a local news article about a group of local restaurants opening up in a shared building. Cool I thought, I wonder where it is, when they are opening, and what kind of hours they will have.
I clicked on the article and read it.
Location: North of downtown.
Opening: June.
Hours: No info.
A link to an earlier article.
Location: A building name, that might include a street name.
Opening: June (understandable at the time published)
Hours: No info.
Seriously it seems that most of the news articles I see online are like this. Is the current media so poorly educated that they don't know to provide basic information. Have current reporters not heard of the "Who, When, Where, What, Why, and How?" If your article doesn't answer these questions, something is wrong.
Hell half the articles seem to be Twitter quotes followed by a screenshot/link to the Twitter post. Usually at least one of these will be repeated. No actual interviewing anyone. Not even sending an email asking for clarification or more information. Just copy/pasted Twitter posts.
I was reading a different article and in the middle of a sentence it just stopped. An ad appeared and everything after the ad where just sponsored "story" links.
Is this what journalism has come to?