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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: unclewest who wrote (134306)8/25/2005 7:26:32 AM
From: Lane3   of 793790
 
That news report is a classic. Talk about "ledes."

>>Two soldiers who just returned from a year in Iraq were badly beaten in an attack outside Pioneer Square.<<

There is nothing in the story to indicate any relationship whatsoever between the beatings and their service in Iraq except the gratuitous hook. I wonder how many men were beaten in or near bars on that night in the US. Probably hundreds. So why throw in the bit about Iraq? Why frame it that way? Does that story change if we substitute for "solders who just returned from...Iraq" alternatives such as "men who recently become fathers" or "men who had worked earlier in the day at a soup kitchen" or "men who discovered a cure for obesity." Are we any more or less outraged? If so, is that rational?
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