News Comment September 3rd
Posted September 3, 2020 
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Comments(2) | This news story is okay but it has a few problems. First, what it did well, it has an intriguing headline that makes you want to read it and it actually talks about what the headline says. The problems with it though are that the lead is too long, it reiterates parts it has already talked about, and it goes on for too long, the headline says that this story is going to be about Navalny’s poisoning and then goes on to talk about other political opponents to Putin that were also poisoned.
I might have said this in class: The headline and lead SHOULD repeat the same information. The headline is like a fragment of the lead. You can get some of the news, but to get it in full and in complete sentences you read the lead. (This story even has a subhead for those readers that just don’t want to click on the story.)
If you read far enough into the story to hear about the previous victims, then you have all the new info that’s available, and NBC is now going to provide some context for what it all means.
Provide some summary with your critique, Nathanael.
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