<story><title>Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown</title><url>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/plasma-air-control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fmp</author><text>&amp;gt;A scaled-down gale blows over a flat plate set inside the tabletop wind tunnel. Despite the low lighting and hazy Plexiglas view portals, we can clearly see the frenzied fluttering of streamer ribbons, called telltales, in the field of little wind vanes that carpets the exposed test surface inside.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really bothered by this style of journalism which feels the need to start off every story with an &lt;i&gt;in media res&lt;/i&gt; narrative instead of just telling you the most important points and working its way down like a traditional newspaper article should.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care about the scene at the wind tunnel you visited while researching this story. Tell me about the plasma wings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drjesusphd</author><text>I see this more and more and also find it tiresome. I stop reading and go straight to the HN comments. At least then I&amp;#x27;ll more quickly learn what the damn article is about.</text></comment>
<story><title>Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown</title><url>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/plasma-air-control/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fmp</author><text>&amp;gt;A scaled-down gale blows over a flat plate set inside the tabletop wind tunnel. Despite the low lighting and hazy Plexiglas view portals, we can clearly see the frenzied fluttering of streamer ribbons, called telltales, in the field of little wind vanes that carpets the exposed test surface inside.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m really bothered by this style of journalism which feels the need to start off every story with an &lt;i&gt;in media res&lt;/i&gt; narrative instead of just telling you the most important points and working its way down like a traditional newspaper article should.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care about the scene at the wind tunnel you visited while researching this story. Tell me about the plasma wings.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jombiezebus</author><text>Agreed. This style is called &amp;quot;Long-form journalism&amp;quot; for anyone not already familiar with the term.</text></comment>