New York Times: Thursday, September 15, 2011

I've never read the paper prior to this class.  After reading the Times for the past two weeks, it's occurred how much violence there is in the world.  I tried to read today's paper without reading any articles that don't involved fighting, disputes, or death; I was done with the paper in half the time it would have normally took.  I was unfortunately forced to go back and read some of those stories in order to actually read the paper for an adequate amount of time.  However I have noticed that stories that involve fighting or death nearly always start with lead summaries.  I feel like this is very effective.  If you  were reading an article about a death, would you want to get the facts right away, or linger on the small facts?