Article: “Trump Objects to Commission’s Virtual Debate Plan” by Michael M. Grynbaum and Maggie Haberman
The article is about President Trump refusing to do the second presidential debate in a virtual format. The commission planned to do this because of the pandemic and because the recent infection of Trump with the virus. Trump says that the shift to the virtual format is a try of the commission to protect democratic candidate Joe Biden.
The article was listed as “breaking” on the NYT website so I wanted to check it for its newsworthiness. I think the article is newsworthy because the presidential debate affects every American citizen. Trump refusing the virtual format could also impact the elections. The article was published today (Thursday) and so it definitely is recent.
The lead is good because it sums up the most important point of the article and includes the who, what, and why. The first paragraph is one whole sentence and should be parted into two. Thes structure of the article is an inverted pyramid structure with the top news (the whole objection situation) first and then less important information like the integrity of the commission and comparisons to other presidential debates from prior election years.
Yes, that first sentence is about 40 words. That’s a lot.