News article’s flippant style

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I’ve been out all evening so visited the BBC news website to see what I’d missed with the press conference/briefing/announcement (not sure which it was).

The article’s tone seemed so incongruous for a news story. Am I completely out of touch - is there a different tone (much more informal and chatty) that is used for website news stories versus newspaper articles?

The story is about the briefing but it’s not the content I wanted to know about but more the style so hopefully it’s ok that it’s not on the covid boards.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59676409

Examples that struck me included:

“You read that right:”

“ Even if, crossing every finger,”

“after 100 of his backbenchers stuck two fingers up at him”

Am I just being “old fashioned”, for want of a better term?

It’s a commentary piece, rather than a straight forward news release. It’s deliberately casual in tone.

I thought it was more “blog style” but couldn’t see anything to differentiate it from the usual news. I suppose it’s just meant to be taken as read (although I obviously was sent into a paroxysm of pearl-clutching instead )

It's political commentary. It's not directly imparting the facts.