Posted on 06/01/2016 9:47:00 AM PDT by drewh
As you have likely heard, on this past Saturday a 4-year-old boy fell into the gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo.
A gut-wrenching decision was made by the zoo to shoot and kill the gorilla to protect the boy and rescue him from the habitat.
The fallout over the incident has taken a decidedly racist turn as the public has now discovered that the boy and his parents are black.
Laura Collins, in Cincinnati writing for the Daily Mail, published an absolutely despicable piece on the young boy’s parents, including every detail of his father’s criminal history.
The actual lede and headline for her piece was all about how the young boy’s father,
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“July 1 2016 “
Time travel?
Lede is more specifically correct, but lead is generically correct as well.
No, I disagree. Lede was likely started by someone too illiterate to spell correctly and too arrogant to admit their mistake.
Shaun King is no more black than I am.
If Harambe had been been white, they wouldn’t have shot him.
So gorilla is now a race?
You're in good company (me). Apparently the leading story is "the lede."
No, it has nothing to do with one story versus another. Each story has its own lede. The term lede refers to the opening of an article.
No mention of the victims killed in Chiraq over the weekend. Not surprised.
One of the few times I have learned anything from an article!!
Thanks.
Merriam Webster traces its origin to 1976, which I personally know to be inaccurate. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede
Dictionary.com gives a date of 1963 for the usage, which date I can’t personally opine upon. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/lede
I’m not sure I’d rely upon the Beowolf usage, although the form of the songs used by the minnesingers uses lede to identify the main song, which is similar to using it to identify the main points of the story. See Page 124 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20293/20293-h/20293-h.htm
Of course if a home alarm company actually showed a black person breaking into a home rather than a middle class looking white guy, that would be racism too.
The grammar/spelling police are ever ready to spring into action and this was the rare occasion where their expertise was even invited! Thus the overwhelming response.
Michael Brown. Freddie Grey. Harambe.
Lede is correct.
Oy vey...
One reporter mentions the criminal history and this fake black guy goes apeshit.
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