Fun is not a given

I am marathon reading aloud Nikkei BP content these days, aloud or whispering, switching between TechOn! articles and Nikkei Business. TechOn! articles are factual, not bland but not tasty either. Style doesn't matter here much but not in the long run. I can find interest in the stories from a factual point of view a well as language structure point of view. It both matters. I am not strictly on the linguistic side, and to say the truth, I have never been feeling so much away form linguistic matters. The liaison interpreter is an agent of communication, but more than often a consultant on the spot, not a grammatical wizard. TechOn! is OK but Nikkei BP is not. Especially the so-called interviews. I write "so-called" because they don't feel like face to face interviews. What's worse is the content. Dwindling discourses stuffed with platitudes. One interviewee I just read is Standards & Poor vice-president, endlessly circumvoluting around BCP. The reading aloud makes for a good exercise. But you have to think about what you read, just like when practicing shadowing. You must take extra care not start parroting while thinking about what to fix for dinner. Therefore you must think about what you read. That's where the meaning of things and life clash onto the "sense critique". Oh, my! These texts, from a meaning point of view, are too much of the time simply, absolutely dreadfully boring. I just left a comment over Nikkei BP I bet they won't publish, that the whole story on BPC could have been wrapped up in a single page as the points raised were nowhere more than three bland arguments. Well, sure, it's the Nikkei BP, not .... hummm .... not ... what, by the way? I can't come with an example in Japanese. OK, it's the Nikkei BP and the readers are not philosophers. But this said, platitude is not only endemic in those writings; the length of it, sameness and redundancy are dosed at a terribly high level. It sounds like daily life conversation. That's why the magazine sells. So what do you do without the fun factor when you do have to read such crap? I am at loss for a good advice besides hoping for better, more intelligent content to be found somewhere else.