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News Critique #9
November 2, 2011 | | 1 Comment
This article confuses me. The title of the article is “Girl, 2, injured after 6-story fall from apartment building”. I had to read the title a few times to understand what it meant. It was definitely not an attention grabbing title and to top it off the article itself was only four sentences long with a quote thrown in there. The entire article seemed like it could have been a lead. The information that was a part of the article was all vital and good information for the story but I felt like I was left hanging. At the same time although, there isn’t much else to say in this article
http://www.twincities.com/stpaul/ci_19229474
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This has more to do with timing, I think, Sarah. The accident occurred late Sunday afternoon. Police filed a report a bit later, but no one from the newspaper probably followed up ’til the next day. It would be worse if this was Sioux City. The Journal has no one working weekends.