Superficial Sarcasm

This literally left me laughing! It hit everything right on the head! It is as if he had my popular article sitting right in front of him! He began by overdramatizing the simplicity of a popular article title. The irony is, the title for my popular article about lactose intolerance was “Lactose Intolerance”.  He was correct to establish that journalists tend to begin by attempting to clarify this is not an article of their own opinion but rather on a scientific topic by using statistics or quotes. He the goes on to exaggerate that no paragraph should me more than one line, although joking his sarcasm is sprinkled with truth. The mentality that I have found a lot of popular articles hold is the mentality that the shorter the article the better. The more quickly we get the point across to our lazy and uninterested audience the better. The less they have to actually read and think the more people will read it. I also found his mentioning of popular articles sympathies to reign true. Often I find popular articles, especially on a health topic to draw in those who are hurting and then provide hope and compassion for those reading. It is a clever way to appeal to an audience and gain quick respect and appreciation for the article. The article about popular articles also mentions quotes a few times in a humorous manner. Quotes within popular articles, as I have just noticed, are almost always short and upon review very vague. The portion midway through about the picture was hilarious. My popular article I used for my paper did indeed have a picture halfway through and it did indeed keep me reading the article. Also my article stuck with short paragraphs and even some one-liners as he poked fun of near the bottom. The portion about how the general audience will choose to read the first article that pops up in a search is incredibly true and because of that the information in the first found article is often built upon information the author found in general searches as well. This article was very entertaining and took the raw form of all popular articles and showed us all how silly they truly are!