Favorite Lead
“At
least 15 people are dead and more than 100 injured in the wake of a devastating
tornado that hit the city late Wednesday afternoon, destroying thousands of
homes, businesses, and other structures.”
http://www.pulitzer.org/files/2012/breaking_news_reporting/01tuscaloosa.pdf
I
chose this lead as my favorite because it is direct and straight to point,
while still interesting. This lead caught my attention immediately with the
opening fact that 15 people died. The fact that so many people died lead me to
want to know the how, why, when, and where of this story. The other leads were
lengthy and not about anything I personally am interested in. With lead number
one I didn’t feel any confusion or anticipation; it was all there right from
the start. While questions and curiosity can be good tools to influence readers
to continue, in this context I feel that answering questions is more important
than presenting them.
Two other leads
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
‘“What you
looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay…”
I hadn’t so much
forgot as I couldn’t bring myself to remember. Other things were more
important.
Whether I could
remember the rest of the poem or not was immaterial. The truth of the statement
was like a wadded-up handkerchief, sopping wet in my fists, and the sooner they
accepted it the quicker I could let my hands open and the air would cool my
palms.”
“L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases
from authorities”
“Fifteen years
before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony
and a top advisor plotted to conceal child molestation by priests from law
enforcement, including keeping them out of California to avoid prosecution,
according to internal Catholic church records released Monday.”
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