[Seattle-editorial] Story Proposal

[Jeremy G Kahn]

Thumbs up to Gentry's proposals (both of them) here; go Judy and Gentry!

I think that clarifying the story in the feature is important, but i 
think it's also okay to say "here's the lead (yadda yadda); read an 
account here." especially if we're moving to a hook-and-link feature 
format.  Details and errata can be posted as comments to the story -- 
that's a large part of what comments are intended for.

I don't mean that we should post outright lies on the front page. Just 
that showing people interesting articles is our role as feature 
composers/editors.  That the articles may provoke discussion or further 
interactive journalism is a good thing.

I think it's okay if the "hook" paragraph is taken fromt he body of the 
article instead of the first two as well -- think of what newspapers do 
when they take a sensational quote and print it in a block-box with 
twenty point type in the middle of an article, to draw you in.

Feel free to experiment, and to think of how to get people to click the 
link and read more.

... the former newspaper editor,

jeremy


typist at speakeasy.net wrote:

>Hi Gentry,
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>I'll take a stab at editing it, but two paragraphs would be too short. Let's post the two lead paragraphs and link to rest of story.
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>I think the writer exaggerates a bit in two instances. 1) there were not hundreds of anti-Bush protesters in Bellevue, more like dozens; he is correct that they did overwhelm the Bush supporters (I was there most of the time).  Also there were already a lot of people at Hunts Point by noon.  Not sure they came from other street protests (we drove past them on the way to Bellevue).  2) The local news did a terrible job of  covering the protests -- not a great job according to reporter (unless I missed something).  Channel 4  gave it the most press as far as I could tell.  Do others think the local media covered this well?
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>The protest on Friday in Seattle was at Victor Steinbrueck park in the market I thought not Westlake as reported.
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>I like the article, but I want the facts to be reported correctly.  I'll correct what I can.  If anyone else has some feedback, please let me know. 
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>Judy
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gentry Lange [mailto:g at art13.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 05:12 AM
>>To: 'Editorial'
>>Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Story Proposal
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>>Title: Bushwacked in Seattle
>>Subtitle: Black Helicopters And Millionaire Mansions
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>>http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32079&group=webcast
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>>This is a great story, and we should post a summary of it as a feature...
>>Anyone have time to shorten it to two paragraphs or so? I will do the HTML
>>work if someone slices and dices.
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>>Gentry
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