Friday, September 5, 2008

Try This On For

an opening sentence to a newspaper article.


"FORT WORTH — A woman sitting alone in a car in Buck Sansom Park was fatally shot Wednesday night by a police officer after she shot herself in the head and then aimed her gun at an officer, police reported." Fort Worth Star Telegram.

When the writer of that piece was told in journalism school,"Get your readers attention in your opening sentence." he took the lesson to heart.

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