Every time I read my local my local paper I wonder why I even try. The articles are so amateurish that it's almost painful to read them. Today's article was about a recent debate that had occurred between incumbent Margi Vanderhye and her Republican challenger Barbara Comstock. Although the content and subject of the article was pertinent to the readers of the times, because it was so poorly written, I doubt any readers took anything from the article.
The author used a "he said she said" format through out the whole article giving a play by play of what occurred during the debate. First so-and-so asked a question, then Vanderhye said this, then Comstock said that, and on and on for the whole article. In fact, the word said was used 27 times in the whole article! Articles are meant to be more than just listing what happened, otherwise we would just watch footage of the debate on youtube (or go to the actual debate). Unfortunately, because of the boring writing style and format the value of the article decreased significantly.
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