The Minister, the money and Ms Liu
I find Baker and McKenzie’s article difficult to read. The piece reads as a list of the facts that they have found on this issue, there is no personality in the article. Perhaps I’m wrong about that perhaps there is personality in the piece (that of Ms Liu and I clash with her.
The question comes up in my mind, how does one tackle a big and difficult issue that may have legal concerns in a print form without seeming dry and boring. The usual approach to this kind of story would be no doubt to collect statements or brief interviews from those involved or effected. This feels to me more like suddenly some small amount of new newsworthy element has come out around this story and the journalists have felt the need to notify their readers of the update. Why then have they reiterated the whole story. In a broadcast context this may have worked because the quotes can be recorded and played throughout the story, this written structure of small quotes throughout the text seems to me to kind of distract from the flow of the story.
although I now know this story having read this article, had I not been required to read the whole thing for class I would have stopped two pars in. Too many words without really giving us a great deal of detail
