In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news.
If we were writing, we'd use commas, parentheses, or even dashes to separate this additional information and mark it off as an independent thought group.
Maybe you said things like: in job interviews, in business meetings or negotiations, when talking to older people, when writing business emails, and so on.
Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about.
他们写作是件严肃事情,人们相信:甚至那些博学低调不喜欢炫耀评论家,比 George Bernard Shaw 和 Ernest Newman也知道自己在做什么。
There men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.
Er, no. It's more to do with academic writing conventions, you know, writing a bibliography and how to refer to sources in your text. That sort of thing.
And this is an example that we see a lot in academic and scientific writing where we turn verbs into nouns to talk about processes and this is called nominalisation.