Why should articles like these always start with some fictional story like a novel? The actual news is buried somewhere half-way after the throw-away story.

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StarGrit 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It is following a magazine style. This is partly to elicit an emotional reaction and partly I suspect because the copy writer is bored and wishes they were writing novels instead.

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throwaway290 3 hours ago | parent [-]

if it's a proper news source they (and every other paper) already reported it who knows how many times. "city is about to ban phones in schools" "city is banning phones in schools" "the phones in schools were banned". everybody who needs to know already knows

This is not intended to be a news piece. It's a story. But whoever is in charge of CMS messed up categories. It should not be labeled news

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StarGrit 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

It is an annoying writing style that is done on a lot of sites in both news articles and "stories" as you call them.

	▲	throwaway290 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		annoying? if you want Crime and Punishment to be "guy killed a grandma" that's your thing but believe me this style is not annoying to many people aside from vocal minority