Newsprint Entertainment
One unexpected perk at the HODR base is that we receive a daily English-language newspaper. The Independent features lots of articles about massive arms seizures (usually consisting of 2 grenades, one rifle, and 4 bullets or some similarly impressing stash), bird flu, dacoits, and more.
The writing is of debatable quality and I read it more for entertainment than to be informed. One of my favorite literary tools used by Independent reporters is the three-peat - using the same information in headline, lead-in line, and quote. It's a great way to pump up the volume on skinny articles.
A particularly entertaining recent example:
The writing is of debatable quality and I read it more for entertainment than to be informed. One of my favorite literary tools used by Independent reporters is the three-peat - using the same information in headline, lead-in line, and quote. It's a great way to pump up the volume on skinny articles.
A particularly entertaining recent example:
"Bangladesh is haven of corruption: ACC ChiefHee.
UNB, Dhaka
Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury yesterday described the country as a haven of corruption saying that the vice has been the cause of miseries to crores of people.
'The country is now a sanctuary of corruption. It's corruption that causes miseries to crores of people,' he told a discussion..."
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