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Journalism 110 Soft Leads |
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Soft leads are the fun ones! Especially use: *Descriptive (describe person, place or event)/Anecdotal/Narrative (tell a story) *Focus on a person
But avoid: *Quotes (these usually don't work) *Chair sitter *Weather-report *Stereotype
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Examples from the prof From Nowadays, all things large and furry are being woman-handled by vets Lee Aldrich has been groping inside the cow's rear end for nearly 50 minutes. As she pulls out her hand, sheathed from finger tip to shoulder in yellow rubber, the cold 7 a.m. air hits the glove and rises into steam. Getting ready to go back inside the cow, she gives a firm pat to its hind quarters and squirts white lotion onto her hand for lubrication. Although the animals are docile, a ton of bovine is not easily manipulated. When the cow thumps forward, it literally pulls Ms. Aldrich with her. Several stalls down
in the open barn, Erin Barron repeats the same process, standing with
her head not as tall as the cow's rump. About a dozen students of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine have gathered on this cold morning on a hill overlooking part of the rural college campus at Virginia Tech. Like Ms. Aldrich and Ms. Barron, they are not burly men.
From Armed to Wrestle; Steve Stanaway adds movie credit to his long list of arm wrestling credits I'm waiting for Steve Stanaway in the lobby of Denny's 24-hour breakfast shop. Looking for a guy self-described as "wearing a red T-shirt." A white car pulls into the parking lot. The license plate reads, "BRUTAL." Got to be him. The door opens, and
it's like watching Arnold Schwarzenegger march out of a movie. This guy's
big. The upper half of his body looks like one of those action-figure
toys you squeeze and send all the air into its biceps. Top-heavy, so he
sort of swaggers, carrying all those muscles around. Comes in, shakes my hand, which I expect to fall off but doesn't. Here, in the flesh, is one of the top arm wrestlers in the world. Stanaway's won three national firsts and three international firsts in the under 200-pound class.
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