To: mrs9x
"Did anyone read past the first paragraph? He said that he supported Cruz, Lee, and the others. The first paragraph is the conventional wisdom of Washington, not the author’s opinion."
Correct, and actually the "conventional wisdom" of his Weekly Std. too. Authors should not write that way. News anchors do it too, putting a quote before saying who spoke it. Ignorant.
To: TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
“Authors should not write that way.”
Exactly! Especially when the intro is what readers have been used to receiving from the rag publishing the article!
Lead with the thesis!
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To: TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
Yeah, it’s misleading, but that’s one of the few tricks these hacks know to make a story “interesting”. Shock the reader/viewer up front enough, and you might grab their attention.
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