With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Headline writing is an art form.
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.
Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?