Subject-verb inconsistency in compound sentences: A norm?


I used to write long, compound English sentences until I was told that it was
considered poor writing style. However, the more Japanese I read, the more I
get the feeling that it is rather natural to have a long, (seemingly) complex
sentence instead of the other way around. This often causes confusion for me.

What's worse, I sometimes find that the subject and the verb/verbs in a
sentence disagree.

For instance, these two sentences seem to have perfectly clear subjects from
the beginning:

1.[ (Source)](http://www.fnn-
news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00391859.html "宇宙服を使いサギ　親子を逮捕　インド")

> インドの警察当局は、NASA(アメリカ航空宇宙局)との取引をほのめかし、実業家からおよそ2,300万円をだまし取った疑いで、この親子を逮捕した。

2.[ (Source)](http://www.fnn-
news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00391839.html
"生活保護費4,300万円を横領　東京・北区の2職員ら")

> 2人は、普段から生活保護費の変更処理を怠るなどしていたということで、2018年3月、机にある山積みの資料を整理したところ、今回の不正が発覚した。

While I can understand both sentences, I find myself losing sight of the
subject halfway through. For case 1, it was the `親子` who performed `ほのめかし`.
Yet, the subject of the whole sentence is `インドの警察当局`. I literally had to
pause, and parse the sentence carefully again.

The same goes for case 2, where 2人 is the subject of the sentence, yet mid-
sentence, `整理した` appears, followed by `発覚した`. I was scratching my head as to
whom did the `整理` and `発覚`. It couldn't have been 2人, the suspects. Again, I
had to look it over to get the meaning right.

**Question:**  
Is this reading issue I have right now a matter of lack of reading experience,
or are the sentences themselves somewhat poorly written? Is this sort of
writing and/or speaking style preferable for the Japanese language? By this
style, I mean one in which the subject and the verb/verbs differ, causing
possible ambiguity.




These sentences are certainly a bad composition. However, you may have to
settle down with it when time and space are limited because of the media.




These sentences are certainly a bad composition. However, you may have to
settle down with it when time and space are limited because of the media.

