Bush and mediocrity
Bush’ s recent speech regarding the gains in Iraq was a mediocre example at best of journalism writing, with some good points thrown in.
Jennifer Loven, an associated press writer, wrote an article on Bush’s recent speech in the Pentagon that began with a thirty-six word lead. Furthermore, her article followed in the same vane droning on and on for two pages on information that could have been summarized in five paragraphs.
In addition, her nut graf was very informational, but subsequent paragraphs could have been used in a follow up story. She had great usage of quotes, yet they seemed like they were copied from press releases.
Furthermore, she provides the reader with lots of information and no sense of resolution. However, I understand in present circumstances their is not really an opportunity to provide a resolution.
I appreciate the amount of information that Loven presents the readers with but have found better examples of journalistic writing.
Her story does follow the inverted pyramid style format, yet she provides the reader with entirely too much background in the quickly and provides filler for the rest of the article.
I felt that Loven’s article could significantly improve if she simply had face-to-face interviews.
