http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/health/10real.html?_r=1&em
This title should be changed to Really? Are You Serious? Did you actually write this article? I’m not sure when this article went bad for me, was it the absurd picture or scrolling down to the end of the page and seeing it was only four paragraphs. For a New York Times article I expect much more information from a well-known newspaper. I also expect after the headline don’t blow your nose there would be more information behind this statement. But there wasn’t. Did they try run experiments with people to see if it worked? No. This article was not just poorly written it is just such an unnecessary article. Anahad O’Connor should have asked a friend on the paper to help them find an article topic.
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I agree - this article was really unneccessary, and could have been expanded to include other health and sickness myths or something. The research was there, and even in four paragraphs I got what the author wanted me to get out of it, but in my opinion that alone wasn't enough to make an interesting article, or an article at all, really.
I completely agree with everything you said. The headline made it seem like the article had the potential to be fairly interesting if it discussed this claim with others, yet it fell flat. There was definitely not enough information to make the article interesting, it just seemed as though the author had heard someone make this statement and decided to "write an article" about hearing the myth itself.
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