UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read

At least, that's what we assume the report says.

I assume the article covers that.
- Probably confirms my preconceived expectations.

The title is kind of genius.

BTW I don't see this as an actual issue. The important factor is which people read them. If it's journalist who then report on them, and politicians who then act, then they are still effective. I don't see why any average citizen should want to go and read them directly

Vijay Prashad:
Such texts are boring not because of their content but because of how they are written. The style of these texts is almost intended to prevent the reader from getting anything out of them. It’s believed that just by publishing these manuals and reports they meet a certain standard of democracy. But what this kind of writing does is to turn people away from reading. Such writing is, therefore, antidemocratic.
- I feel like I comment this like once a week but plain language, y'all. Learn it, push it down people's throat. Force everyone you know to use it, especially if you work in any kind of writing environment. I'm done with academia, corporate, or other bullshit writing. We need accessibility.
  Ironically, the UN itself includes plain language in its definition of communication (in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities).
- To remain neutral or dispassionate to a freedom system is to be against freedom
- That seriously is not their job. Imagine you would go to a climate scientist or astrophysicist and demand he dumb down his article that is geared towards other experts of the field.
  The language needs to fit a certain standard to ensure it is scientifically sound. It is the job of the media, which it usually does terribly, to then extract the key findings in a language for a wider audience.

Anyone got a TL;DR?

The UN is struggling financially and this report makes the claim that there’s too many meetings and reports that no one reads. They said their most popular reports get 5000 downloads and 1 in 6 reports gets less than 1000 downloads.
- So far i have contributed to that with my own 0
- too many meetings and reports that no one reads
  Sounds like they're being run like a big corporation that is too big for their own good
UN something, something…

Personally they should just be TLDRs.

That is what the press is for, and many reports include summaries.
They need the entire thing though, so the findings can be verified and scrutinized. You know how a one page abstract might give you the gist of a thesis, but you need the 100 pages of the thesis to make sure the conclusion is sound.

Sadly no one read this report either.

I'll read this later in a browser tab i keep open for at least a year.

Thought this would be NotTheOnion

This is the first NotTheOnion-style headline I've seen in a looooong time that actually made me laugh. I miss when NotTheOnion wasn't a constant reminder of the abysmal state of the world.

I’ll wait for the movie