Congratulations to Lara Jakes Jordan for finally getting it right. Her story on the indictment of Congressman Rick Renzi identified his party not just in the lede but it was the First Word in the story.
That has never happened before in my memory. Good job. Outstanding.
In fact, just the other day, AP waited until the 11th paragraph of an 11-paragraph story to identify the party of a candidate who was convicted.
And what a far cry from that 29-paragraph story Lara Jakes Jordan wrote about the indictment of Congressman William Jefferson on June 4, 2007.
She never identified his party.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Don Surber congratulates AP reporter Lara Jakes Jordan for finally identifying the party in one of her stories on indicted congressmen
Don Surber:
