Ellen Wallace
One-legged chickens and Helen Thomas keep us reading today
Journalists are taught to package information so the key bits are at the top. This is especially important in web writing, the theory has it. It takes a special story to let you save the best line for last, and here’s a nice example of just that: “Woman pays £1,800 for chicken leg”. I bet you read right to the end.
Totally separate issue: my favourite online discussion about media today is an article in the Guardian, and the comments that go with it, about White House “doyenne” Helen Thomas, age 89, who was fired for making unacceptable remarks about sending Jews from Israel back to Poland and Germany. Let the sparks fly!
Update, 9 June: the Guardian’s page one today features an article on Helen Thomas’s departure from the White House, good background reading for the blog post mentioned above. It reads like an obituary, which is unfortunate, but in a way it is: not for the woman herself, but for her career, which was longer than the lives of many people. The Washington Post takes a kind approach, not common in Washington, with its “Remember the good that Helen Thomas did in seven decades”.
GenevaLunch, 8 June 2010.
Filed under: Media
Tags: chicken leg, fired, Guardian, Helen Thomas, Lily, pet, Wales, Washington Post, White House
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