Does the piece offer a coherent narrative that’s clearly organized according to a timeline of events, interactions, claims, counter-claims, and outcomes?
I think organization is a virtue, but not a must for a piece to be accurate or worth reading.
Does the piece show ‘scope-sensitivity’ in accurately judging the relative badness of different actions by different people and organizations, in terms of which things are actually trivial, which may have been unethical but not illegal, and which would be prosecutable in a court of law?
I think organization is a virtue, but not a must for a piece to be accurate or worth reading.
This strikes me as a good standard.