When I took journalism classes, we were taught that newspapers should be written as if the audience was comprised of 4th grade students.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > (*falls over laughing*) This is really rich! Looks like the guy was > > basically selling off Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder. > > Completely irrelevant to the point at hand, which maybe the point. > > But I often feel like these news stories are written with the 'word > count' mentality of a 3rd grade report. Otherwise what relevancy is > there to this sentance in the 3rd to last paragraph. "He and his wife, > Patti, have two daughters." Does this somehow inform anybody of > anything about the topic of the article? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:282423 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
