Anecdotal lead

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Rep. Maloney, a U. S. congresswoman from New York since 1992, has spent her career fighting for women’s rights. Though women are now an accepted and unremarkable part of the workforce, Maloney documents some surprisingly grim realities, among them: the gap between men and women’s wages is still widening, working mothers are still penalized for dealing with family obligations, and affordable quality child care is in short supply nationwide. Health ... go into page A9 and there's your wonderful, anecdotal lead ... about half of which would have made it ... with it -- to create a hold to the front lead-in with three questions and three answers, that kind ... get to the point. Quit with the throat clearing anecdotal lead and just give me the nut graph, ... to support it.I think the personality-laden, anecdotal leads, filled with emotion and energy shouldn't be ...

Reacting to Glenn Beck’s interview with filmmaker Patrick Courrielche, who broke the news about the National Endowment for the Arts plumping for Obama and his major pieces of proposed legislation, one talkbacker who goes by the sobriquet of Smokey expressed his anger not at the NEA but at Glenn Beck. His formulation left little to the imagination: “We should be encouraging art ... it is arbitrary because there are no comparing studies looking at the different amounts of carbs within the definition of "low-carb." Therefore, that recommendation is just a personal opinion based on anecdotal stories. It's not meaningful at all because it is a very small minority of people who actually keep up with the breakdown of macronutrients of their daily dietary intake.It is my opinion ... Editor’s Note :  The first part of this brilliant essay was published  here .  The following is the second and final portion of this essay. By Aram Anahid The Shi’ite story of occultation is not the only mystifying singularity within the vast universe of Islamic thought.  Islamic thinkers have long been challenged by the many seemingly irrational, or nonrational, stories that are found in the Qur’an and hadith.  Anecdotal accounts of the bodily resurrection of the dead on the Day of Judgment

Note: Cross posted from Battered Mothers Rights – A Human Rights Issue.PermalinkParental Alienation Syndrome Debunked by the National District Attorney’s Association – Part TwoFiled under: Child Custody, Child Custody Battle, Child Custody Issues, Child custody for fathers, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Relations, Domestic Violence, Dr. Richard Gardner, Family Court Reform, Family Courts, Family Rights, Getting Screwed by the Whores of the Court, Help for Victims of Domestic Violence, ... t failed a drug test, but he was connected to human growth hormone by anecdotal evidence, a sort of guilt by association. (He wasn’t tested for HGH because ... . So if MLB was willing to suspend Schafer for 50 games due to “anecdotal evidence,” where’s the condemnation for McGwire and Bonds? Isn’t there sufficient “anecdotal evidence” against those guys? Making a name for himself Really Dumb Choice by tristero The comments to my previous post were genuinely fascinating. They reflect, in a microcosm, the much larger problems with our national discourse, which I've bemoaned since my earliest days as a blogger. As always, I'm not trashing our commenters, at least I hope not, I like you people! Rather, I think we all accept the prevailing terms of the current discourse as normal rather than what it is: a bizarre caricature of what real discussions look like. (Me, too, o

Anecdotal evidence indicates that some of those receiving the regular flu shot actually contract the flu. Is this an indication of immunosuppression as a result of the way it manipulates your immune system? Typically, when a flu virus enters your body, it has to go through the respiratory system, which has its own defences. Injection into the blood stream bypasses adenoids, tonsils, etc. The implication of a possible binary interaction with the H1N1 vaccine is troubling. Flashback: Swine fluNote: Cross posted from Battered Mothers Rights – A Human Rights Issue.PermalinkParental Alienation Syndrome Debunked by the National District Attorney’s Association – Part TwoFiled under: Child Custody, Child Custody Battle, Child Custody Issues, Child custody for fathers, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Relations, Domestic Violence, Dr. Richard Gardner, Family Court Reform, Family Courts, Family Rights, Getting Screwed by the Whores of the Court, Help for Victims of Domestic Violence, I will begin this episode of K’s psychotic, or otherwise, rants by cribbing about my favourite topic, Press Releases. It doesn’t take much to add a link to a download location, but some folks think that a friendly five-meg attachment of a paunchy fat-ass will get printed. Never mind the picture belongs in a gallery of ‘How not to take a picture!’, one picture I got recently didn’t even have the red-eye corrected. A crap mobile phone camera can do that much onboard, let alone on a computer. I had

Yahoo has redesigned its home page. Now you can add content from other sites. Last night I saw an article by Tim Weber on BBC News that described Yahoo’s changes to its home page. It’s a nice, clean look and I like it a lot, personally. But you also have to note something else when you visit — Yahoo’s opened up its page to other online properties. If you visit the My Favorites navigational section on the left (you have to be logged in to your Yahoo account Genetic testing can be a useful tool in predicting cancers that one might be at high risk to develop – so hailed  a recent article in the local Sunday Parade . As I read the article my skepticism went into overdrive and I wondered if genetic testing could be used for insurance companies to deny coverage or employers to pass over an applicant with genetic markers for cancer for a lower risk applicant. As it turns out my skepticism wasn’t unwarranted nor was I alone in my skepticism. In 2008,

As the Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway has been demonstrating, the mainstream press has shown quite a bit of interest in the religious roots of the anti-ACORN video reporter Hannah Giles and, in particular, the social and political views of her minister father and, to a lesser degree by inference, their home Clash Church. Strangely enough, less ink has been poured out on the background of the video mastermind himself, James E. O’Keefe III. He has, by the way, grown from being a “filmmaker” in to ... capture JNP’s math problem. When he does win, he wins by small margins. Franken has rolled up some big margins in populous parts of the state. I have yet to see any delegate block that JNP has that could counterbalance Franken’s lead. If JNP supporters have evidence contradicting this analysis, please share it. Older reports, largely confirming my hypothesis, are after the jump.

Researching the current Gambit cover story on the Edible Schoolyard New Orleans at Samuel J. Green Charter School was like living out a garden-set reenactment of the Adam Sandler film Billy Madison . The educators behind the Alice Waters-adapted program — school president Tony Recasner, chef/teacher April Neujean, garden teacher Denise Richter and ESY NOLA director Donna Cavato — not only provided testimonials about its proven methodology in building a farm-to-table dining culture, but Just remember - the more desperate they get for sales, the higher those hemlines will go. Which is a very good reason to hold out until at least 2011 before making a decision about which pointless HD format to support. There's only one way HD DVD can retaliate now - bikinis!

1997 Donruss Preferred Fanfest Tins by Lance Tanaka Many collectors recall the late Pinnacle Brands with often vastly differing opinions – usually extremes on the love/hate scale, rarely do you hear indifference. For many of us who came of age in the baseball collecting world, Pinnacle represented the very best and very worst of “The Big 5″ manufacturers. They were innovative to the point of ridiculousness; intensely creative and yet amazingly pedestrian, straddling genius and the absuYes, up to three million. That was the conclusion reached in the 2009 annual report on the Spanish property market prepared by Madrid-based real estate analysts R. R. de Acuña & Asociados. The report is described by Sunday Times Spanish Property Doctor columnist Mark Stucklin as one of the most influential annual reports on the sector, so the conclusions are hardly to be sneezed at, indeed the assumptions made in the calculations appear on the surface to be entirely plausible. In fact, havFascinating, if somewhat anecdotal, stories in USA Today. We noted early in the summer that global migration reversed for the first time in some 80 years The developed world, which for decades has offered a difficult but promising path to upward mobility, appears to be losing its allure. Unemployment is rising, and backlashes against foreign workers are mounting . The result is potentially the biggest

I recently had an opportunity to read a preview copy of Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook , by Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo. It’s an interesting read that offers a lot of value for those starting in social media from square one. But despite the beginner’s focus, the book offers some great tips for even the most experienced marketers out there. Here are my highlights from the book. A Great Anecdotal Beginning The book starts with a look at a guy named Derek, a “As the Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway has been demonstrating, the mainstream press has shown quite a bit of interest in the religious roots of the anti-ACORN video reporter Hannah Giles and, in particular, the social and political views of her minister father and, to a lesser degree by inference, their home Clash Church. Strangely enough, less ink has been poured out on the background of the video mastermind himself, James E. O’Keefe III. He has, by the way, grown from being a “filmmaker” in to

By John BallardAncillary to my previous post, this subject is low-hanging fruit that can lead to changes in meaningful Congressional oversight over federal contracts. The leaning of American journalism, with newspapers becoming an endangered species, leaves an investigative reporting gap big enough for bigots, fascist wannabes and gasbags to jump through without getting wet. Unless voices like that of David Isenberg get a bigger megaphone the downhill velocity of a right-wing juggernaut will conBest Lead of the Month'If, under the spell of Moby-Dick, you decided to run away to the modern equivalent of whaling, where would you go? Because petroleum displaced whale ... that it dies a relatively well-mannered death.'--from Caleb Crain's New Yorker review of Eric Jay Dolin's Leviathan, an anecdotal history of the American whaling industry. To review past best leads of the month, go here & here.By William Easterly In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books I have a review of: Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. The success of the East Asian Gang of Four—and now China—has exerted an irresistible lure to researchers of growth. Academic economists who were used to studying whether a politically difficult tax reform might make

... with Bush, who I considered part of the social background that enabled these power-tripping nobodies. Anyway, this time there were no pictures. Where they had been were just naked picture hangers. Which lead me to spend some time wondering whether: A) new pictures have not yet been issued by the new administration B) the new administration isn’t into issuing photos like this C) this particular ... The intellectual and political life of the United States over the past 60 years was affected in so many important and enduring ways by Irving Kristol that it is difficult to capture in words the extent of his powerful and positive influence. Irving, who died today at the age of 89, was the rarest of creatures—a thoroughgoing intellectual who was also a man of action. He was a maker of things, a builder of institutions, a harvester and disseminator and progenitor of ideas and the means whereby There's nothing wrong with anecdotal reporting, but it's important to realize that it's a mainstay of propagandistic reporting. ... the few who raised the issue of support for the war.So the lead of the article was entirely atypical, chosen by the reporter to make his ... of both Americans and Iraqis," Becker said Higgins told family and friends.Another anecdotal news item, with a far different message. ... go into page A9 and there's your wonderful, anecdotal lead ... about half of which would have made it ... with it -- to create a hold to the front lead-in with three questions and three answers, that kind ... get to the point. Quit with the throat clearing anecdotal lead and just give me the nut graph, ... to support it.I think the personality-laden, anecdotal leads, filled with emotion and energy shouldn't be ...

On the other hand, a feature lead is specially crafted to catch a reader's eye. There are several kinds of feature leads. Anecdotal leads, which use a “case study” as a specific example to illustrate the story for readers. ...Capitol Weekly People read papers so they don't look stupid for not knowing what's going on. "And that makes the anecdotal lead all the more pointless and vexing," writes Will Shuck. "If we're just trying to gather enough facts to hold our heads high in the workplace, we want those facts as quickly as we can get them, not tucked away under a haze of analogy."

In the opening of the article the writer uses an anecdotal lead, describing how McBride, the author of “Song yet Sung”, came across the idea to write a book about slavery and the particular geographic region he chose to write about. ...This opinion is hostile to the notion of MERS as nominee and could lead to problems for it in foreclosing. The entire structure of MERS as a recorded nominee.Because my dogs lead very good lives. But when you think about it and get some perspective on it, I don't think my life and a dog's life are equal in value. And I would not want my daughter to believe that I left this world as her ...

Stories that begin with an anecdotal lead may send online readers clicking away, if they can't figure out quickly what the story is about. Many broadcast journalists have taken to rewriting their stories for the Web by simply adding a ...You're providing a service that even Zap2It tends to fail at these days. Thanks for doing so, as it is greatly appreciated by those of us who are interested in actual data, rather than anecdotal and/or PR spin. Aaron R | September 21, ...Perry said there is anecdotal evidence the Earth's temperature may be slightly decreasing, but local weather patterns are much more affected by the jet stream than solar activity. However, Perry said snow in Buenos Aires and southern ...-Dr. Carol M. Davis, Department of Physical Therapy, Miller School of Medicine. Editor's Note: The headline for this story was chosen by editors, not by the author. Also, an anecdotal lead was cut from the beginning of the story. ...Anecdotal Leads. Somewhere between the efficient rigor of the traditional lead and the riskiness of the experimental lead, an anecdotal lead begins with a one- or two-sentence story. Geoffrey Saint says a pig named Tailgate saved his ...