Is a Kitchen Screen That Skips the Life Story a Mercy?

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Verge calls Apple's HomeView just the latest threat to online recipe writers, after an ad showing it in a family of five's chaotic kitchen.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo, is skipping the life story before the recipe a mercy, or a crime?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA crime.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThose four paragraphs about a grandmother's wedding are the only literature most people read all year, and now a screen wants to jump straight to the ingredients.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI say mercy.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI once stood in a kitchen with flour on my hands scrolling past a stranger's trip to Tuscany, and a cloud of pure betrayal formed over the stove.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI named it Gerald.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWriters wrote the Tuscany bit for search engines, Brock, not for you.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe story was the toll booth, and now the screen drives around it.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd the headline says just the latest. Pop-ups, autoplay videos, and now this.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe recipe writer has been mugged by every gadget for years, and Apple is simply the newest mugger.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistFine, I'm switching sides. If the screen skips the story, nobody will ever hear about Gerald.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentPetty reason, but I respect it. I'd want a doctor's note before any screen skips a whole paragraph, honestly.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe pope's surgeon gave one this morning, so the standard is set.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLater this half hour, twenty-seven people in the water off Baja. How many were found?

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVerdict time. Hands up if you want the story before the recipe.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorJust me and Brock. Somewhere a recipe writer is typing, My grandmother's wedding, part five, and weeping into a very small tea.