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Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social |
One thing I love about my company is that we put the news/scoop/interesting stuff right at the top of the piece. I’m a Puck subscriber but their habit of writing longass Thackeray ledes before the paywalled news drives me nuts.
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Matt Ficke
@mattficke.bsky.social
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A pyramid, if you will, but inverted.
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Tim
@tlatshaw.bsky.social
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This does not entice me to know what lies beyond. It just sort of annoys me like a recipe blog.
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☕️ Jeremy Diamond
@dmnd.me
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I’m a subscriber but it’s hard to take most of their political coverage seriously and losing Teddy Schleifer to NYT was massive.
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Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
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Well, Dave, how can you convince your readers that you are an important insider/player with access to the "room where it happens" unless you have a long throat-clearing buildup stuffed with quasi humblebrags?
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Nobody Ever
@frambley1.bsky.social
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What the actual Puck?
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DaveAnthony
@daveanthony.bsky.social
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It’s really terrible, so I salute your company
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Black Wings Has My Gordon
@gordondouglas.bsky.social
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Wonderful editing to pad out the lede with a reference to the identity of one's partner. We really needed to know!
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notsureigetit
@notsureigetit.bsky.social
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What is a Thackeray lede? Google helpfully pointed out there's a Thackray Museum (of Medicine) in Leeds (England).
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Ethan Galant
@ethangalant.bsky.social
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"It was a dark and stormy night..."
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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This is why I stopped watching Rachel Maddow. For even the smallest gobbet of news you had to sit through ten minutes of "In 1867 a young congressman named James Garfield ..."
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@x-tweeter.bsky.social
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It’s my biggest pet peeve right now—news written like a feature. News wants to be written like news. Invert that pyramid, people, dont pervert it. #stopthepervertedpyramid
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burt sherbert
@bc0gz.bsky.social
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i remember learning a lot about matt berry’s life while trying to get fantasy football advice.
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