Chapter 3-5....guilty as charged

"The goal...is to stress those angles that are least like the routine of other stories" (27).

If is the news does not seem interesting, the journalist must write in a way that makes an ordinary story unordinary. I immediatly thought of the Gomez article from the previous class. The writer wrote the story in such a way that the reader felt "so what?" This comes  natural to me.I have had quite a few article topics which were less than exciting, but I tried to make them interesting.

 I must say that I have done everthing this book says not to. I have used the double decking technique so many times when finding myself 100 words or so shy of my limit.

Attribution was the way I would start off my articles. Due to writing so many research papers in my lifetime, I am used to the quote-explanation-quote-explanation formula.People are not stupid; they do not need to hear the same information twice.

My biggest problem, so far, has been the use of journalese. Only having a semester with no prior experience as a journalist, I had no idea as to the style of newswriting. I would write what sounded familiar, what I had heard before. Journalese has become so over-used and hackneyed. I am ashamed to say that, last semester, I actually used the phrase "this reporter". Familiar doesn't necessarily mean correct.