I thought this would be an ultra condensed version of news for people that kinda live under a rock. Like using Wikipedia's "in the news" section titles as your only source of information about the outside world.
Giving you reason you should read the article is useful info, even if it’s subjective. And it helps the reader know what to suspect. Is this a landing page for the newspaper? Or is it someone’s opinion or review if it? That signal is all lost now.
Maybe instead of saying “The most interesting” it should say “An interesting”. that way the signal is not lost.
Everything is interesting to someone. So what?
It reminds me of the early days of Macintosh programming when we put "the" in front of all our variable names, like theResource, theWindow, theFile, and theCursor. It was just a lot of noise that added nothing.
Strunk and White got this right: Eschew needless words.
That said, I was glad to see this and read the article. Atlas Obscura has such a knack for finding the most interesting topics!
