[cliveowen]

>Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts. Fingers frosted synthetic white[...]

>Green waddled to the door, his two Chihuahuas, Max and Sammy, following attentively.

How do the authors know any of these (useless) details? They weren't there. Is this a factual recount or fiction?

I hate it when these failed novelists try to make a run-of-the-mill story sound like an Hollywood movie. Next time, just stick to the facts and save me a couple of pointless pages of unsubstantiated claims. Is is that hard to do?

[CPLX]

It's not that it's hard to do, it's that the author and the publication decided not to write it that way.

This is what's called a feature story, it's the classic form in which long form monthly magazines tell stories. If you don't like this form of writing there are many other styles available to you, such as the very neutral and factual NY Times or AP style, or the more conversational style popularized by blogs, for example.

[serve_yay]

Sometimes I think I'm bonkers because I want things like this to be an ordered, bulleted list of what happened and that's all. Have you ever been in a group where someone is telling a story and wished you could hear it without all the dumb narrative flourishes, instead just "this happened, then this, then this"?

[joshu]

I want to do a news site like this someday.

[navait]

The facts are gathered from the court documents. Admittedly, I'm sure the author exaggerated(this is wired, after all)