I'd substitute exciting for enlightening. The writer is obviously a frustrated novelist, and I don't appreciate being told what I'm supposed to feel about the facts I'm reading, or the tease-and-reveal storytelling. This is not journalism, it's dramatization.
yet, in my humble uneducated opinion the writing is more engaging than CNN or similar factoids, and is an example of what journalism could be, without pretentious objectiveness (which is impossible to achieve, to most journalists-reporters, at least).
