From the Chicago Trib's Rex Huppke comes Jamie's Story.
From the Plain Dealer comes Holiday letters dissected.
Cindy Lange-Kubick in Lincoln on Gary Scharf's last act: He was antsy at lunch Wednesday.
His girlfriend still had 10 minutes before she had to be back at work, but Gary wanted to get going.
And a rant against the anecdotal lede: I am sick to death of the anecdotal lead, that annoying habit of news writers to start a straightforward story by painting a quaint little picture of everyday life.
If the story is about a bill requiring pet owners to spay or neuter their dogs (just to pick an imaginary example), the anecdotal lead first tells us how much Janey Johnson loves Missy, her cocker spaniel.
No doubt Janey and Missy are a lovely pair, but a lot of us have jobs and kids and commutes and precious little time to muse about Missy’s reproductive potential.
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