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Why journalists put the most important facts first
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Journalists love to pretend that the inverted pyramid writing style was a stroke of narrative genius. In reality, early reporters used telegraphs that charged by the word and frequently broke down, forcing them to cram the most important details at the top before the transmission inevitably failed and their money was wasted.
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