I both want to know and don't want to know which male senators were swimming naked.
How steeped in the insider lingo of journalism is Unfogged?
Two nice ledes of articles I didn't finish, but what nice ledes:
So much so that our non-journalist front-page poster uses the journalese spelling for the first paragraph of a story.
Apparently Orin Hatch is hung like Goliath.
Is that even particularly "insider" anymore?
If Phil "King of the Turtle People" Gramm swam with a turtle shell on, does that really count as naked?
In re: 1, are there better and worse candidates from your perspective, Miby?
I guess Scott Brown didn't become a Senator until 2010.
How steeped in the insider lingo of journalism is Unfogged?
Answer TK.
"TK" is publication generally, not specifically journalism. I've seen advance reader copies with "image TK" or whatnot.
So much so that our non-journalist front-page poster uses the journalese spelling for the first paragraph of a story.
It's more American than journalese. Most publications I've worked on call it a lead.
It's just too hard to know which pronunciation you're supposed to use with that one.
"Burying the lead" sounds a lot more sinister with the other pronunciation.
It's more American than journalese. Most publications I've worked on call it a lead.
It's both. Nobody outside the world of journalese would use this word.
So, why is this FBI story breaking now when there have been whistleblowers who talked about it ages ago?
17: Spencer Hsu has been reporting on the Justice Department review for a while now, but the most recent article (linked in the OP) revealed that the review so far has found erroneous testimony in 95% of the cases, including capital cases. That's a BFD.
16: Wikipedia has a "view" and a recap of recent usage history:
Usage seems mostly confined to the U.S.[2] Originally only journalistic usage that is now so common in general US English that it is no longer labeled as jargon by major US dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster[3] and American Heritage.[4] Noted as "sometimes spelled" in 1959, "often spelled" in 1969, and asserted in the 1979 reprint of a 1974 book (see Citations page). In 1990, William Safire was still able to say that "lede" was jargon not listed in regular dictionaries.[5][1]
Boy, that article on Senate women is phenomenally depressing. Some of the richest and most powerful people in the world are still dealing with the same tired crap.