On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 12:05:05PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: > Do journalists actually use the inverted pyramid these days? I > don't even thing most know what a pyramid is.
I don't think most people know what a journalist is. > > On 10/7/2013 2:42 PM, Bob W wrote: > >The inverted pyramid is the writer's friend as far as this sort of thing is > >concerned. > > > ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid> > > > >>On 7 Oct 2013, at 10:25, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>tl;dr > >> > >>It's missing an intro. There's no clear reason why it would be > >>fruitful to climb that mountain of text. I got three paras in and gave > >>up. > >> > >>Simply leaving a blank line between para's would also help, a bit. > >> > >>Tell 'em what your're going to say. > >>Say it. > >>Summarize what you said. > >Or indeed: > > > >Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em > >Tell 'em > >Tell 'em what you just told 'em > > > >(Which is not the same as the inverted pyramid) > > > >> > >>>On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>Nobody's going to read that, whatever it's about. Several long blocks of > >>>text - why should anyone want to read it? > >>> > >>>Whatever it is you want to say, say it in less than 7 short sentences. > >>> > >>>B > >>> > >>>>On 7 Oct 2013, at 08:56, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >Stuff > > > -- > A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy, > crazier. > > - H.L.Mencken > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
