[DH]

It ain’t rocket science.

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Just learn how to write and good English. Then the most important thing...the 5 W s. Who, when, where, what, and why. No writing of your own interpretation of what you think, or what you think your readers want to hear.

Just the news. Something that is not done anymore.

[Covenantor]

I knew someone would finish my reference to Kipling’s five friends.

[Peet]

Just learn how to write and good English. Then the most important thing...the 5 W s. Who, when, where, what, and why.

My jr. high school english teacher would have failed our papers for that.

Two rules: One: Denotative language only; no connotative (loaded) words allowed[*]. Two: who, what, where, and when. There is no "why" because that is interpretive the others are "measurable" data. THAT is why jourbalism sucks nowadays.

I guess I learned SOMEthing in JHS...

[*] Example: Worc. Telegram story about woman despondent at losing home to foreclosure shoots herself "with her husband's hunting rifle." A.P. picks up the story and woman shoots herself "with her husband's high power hunting rifle." A.P.s paper gets a zero.