Ok, but isn't pyramid the point at the top, and inverted pyramid is the point is at the bottom? Have I been looking at the wrong pyramids my whole life?
The disconnect here is what is the meaning of the "width" of the triangle/pyramid in the analogy.
The idea in the journalistic inverted pyramid concept is that the width of the pyramid correlates to the importance of the information.
So you start first with the most important information (the base of the pyramid, at the top) and then as you continue you fill in the details that may be interesting and necessary to support the important information, but not necessarily important on their own (the tip of the pyramid, at the bottom)
So it's precisely the opposite. Wonderful. I suppose I shouldn't expect anything different, after a few decades of seeing these opposite interpretations arise in parallel.
