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Leads in Papers
Posted on February 21st, 2010 at 12:29 pm by and

Straight News – Timberlake’s brand brings the road to the runway

NEW YORK — William Rast, the contemporary fashion label by Justin Timberlake and longtime friend Trace Ayala, marched a parade of biker styles down the runway at New York Fashion Week Wednesday night in a collection dubbed “New America.”

Anecdotal – Win a medal. Now what? Welcome to the mixed zone.

When Julia Mancuso skied to the bottom of the Franz’s Run at Whistler Creekside Thursday afternoon, she looked at the scoreboard, saw herself in first, fell to the ground and began kicking her skis in celebration.

Direct Quote – Judge: Chris Brown Doing “Really, Really Well”

LOS ANGELES — R&B singer Chris Brown is “doing really, really well” fulfilling the terms of his probation related to last year’s assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna, according to a judge.

Bad Lead -Singing prove to help stroke patients learn words

Boston (DbTechNo) – Results of a new study show that teaching stroke patients to sing may help speed up their recovery.

I think it is a bad lead because the words are the same as the title which shows no creativity. The lead offers nothing new to the story that the title has already offered and I felt that the author could have introduced a new idea that will capture the readers attention further than the basic facts the title has already stated. The only difference between the lead and title is the mention of speed in the lead which is not enough to make it a great one.



Comments so far:

  1. Link Here | February 24, 2010,

    Remember that headlines are not up to the writer, so if the headline is repetitive that’s the fault of the editor, not the writer. That lead is plenty boring though. 5/5.

    dkois

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