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the moment someone turns chaos into bullet points and pretends control was always the plan
means A formal account that gathers facts, findings, or events into an organized statement, written or spoken, for someone who needs to know.
from From the Latin reportare, "to carry back" — re- (back) plus portare (to carry), the same portare that gives us porter, portable, and transport. A report was literally something you carried back: news brought home from the field, the frontier, the meeting. The word arrived in English through Old French reporter, and the sense of carrying information eventually solidified into the tidy documents we now dread.
- origin
- From Latin reportare, to carry back
- watergate
- Two reporters' reports toppled a US president
- weather
- Daily forecasts are reports about a guessed future
- book report
- Spawned the entire art of plausible bluffing
- length
- Executive summaries exist because nobody reads the report
pentagon papers — classified 7,000-page study of u.s. political and military involvement in vietnam from 1945-1967, leaked by daniel ellsberg in 1971
starr report — kenneth starr's 445-page investigation into bill clinton, released to congress in september 1998
mueller report — robert mueller's 448-page investigation into russian interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election, released march 2019