the daily dg

The way that we’re taught in journalism school to do a lead is to get all the basic information into the first or second paragraph somehow (…)

I’m not sure you have to do that. I think that as long as you hold the reader’s attention until you get to that information, it’s all right to bury it a little further down. And I know that that again is a violation of an old axiom, burying the lead. In features and in columns, I don’t believe that’s true.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.