Sunday, March 09, 2008

A trite lede that is long past usable

I saw this one most recently in The Dallas Morning News. It’s the old “he/she must be smiling from heaven” type lede.

With the number of Hindus, Buddhists and secularists increasing in our country, this is a lede that is of no relevance to the first two groups and off-putting to the third. That’s not to mention the fact that it was beaten to death a decade or more ago.

So, Herb Booth and thousands of other reporters? Can it.

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