Columns are like news stories. They must be sharply focused. You’ve got to tell the reader up high what the story is about. You don’t have to say everything that the story is about. That’s why you need several hundred words. But you need to signal what the story is about. We’ve got two interesting pieces about the helicopter gunship video in today’s Daily Cougar that have problems along those lines. One is a news story and the other is an opinion piece.
The news story is about a UH grad student who blogged about the leaked video. His posting went viral, as the saying goes.
Through these three pieces, we’ll get into what’s the story about.
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