To: neverdem
You know, I wouldn't accept a leading paragraph like that in a novel, much less in a serious news piece.
5 posted on
09/20/2006 8:44:47 PM PDT by
ClaudiusI
To: ClaudiusI
"It was a dark and stormy night..."
6 posted on
09/20/2006 8:46:31 PM PDT by
gov_bean_ counter
( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
To: ClaudiusI
>"You know, I wouldn't accept a leading paragraph like that in a novel, much less in a serious news piece.Or from a dyed in the wool lib traitor named Benedict no less!
9 posted on
09/20/2006 8:49:23 PM PDT by
rawcatslyentist
(If a monkey bangs away at a typewriter twice a week for ten years it could write an M. Dowd column.)
To: ClaudiusI
You know, I wouldn't accept a leading paragraph like that in a novel, much less in a serious news piece.
It isn't a "serious news piece." It is labeled an essay, and I think the lede works well for this story.
10 posted on
09/20/2006 8:49:25 PM PDT by
drjimmy
To: ClaudiusI
You gotta understand- he was such a great psychologist, he got his wife to climb the ladder and clean out the gutters while he held the ladder, all dressed up. Must be some kind of gestalt thing.
14 posted on
09/20/2006 9:24:07 PM PDT by
fat city
("Journalists are sloppy, lazy and on expense account")
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