Tuesday, September 27, 2011

New York Times: Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Looks like this will be a slow week for the Times; today's paper didn't have anything extraordinary in it.  I hear about politics so much in the news and in everyday life that reading about more politics in the newspaper is just plain unreadable.

I did like the story on the front page about cervical cancer, however.  It's great to know that poorer countries are getting they need in terms of health and medicine.  I also really liked the delayed lead for this story.  I'm starting to see a general patter in the Times; political articles generally get summary leads while articles that tell a story or have a little emotion to them generally use summary leads.  When I think about it, it would be pretty challenging to use a delayed lead for a political article.  People want that kind of information fast, and a delayed lead would be rather boring.

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