Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Work-in-progress event promoter ordinance still cause for concern in music community
This article really confused me. It had something to do with a city ordinance being passed in Chicago that will limit music clubs from staging events. I don't really understand what it was about, which could be my fault because it's dealing with an issue I'm uninformed about. But then again, the job of a reporter is to help the uniformed understand, so I think he could have done a better job with that. He used a summary lead, which worked well because the piece had a newsy feel to it, even though it's in the Entertainment section. He also provided a link to the actual ordinance, which was good (although I didn't read it, to be honest). There are a couple quotes in the article but I feel like they could have gone earlier in the story. Overall, it was just a boring story that I didn't really get anything out of.
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i definitely think that is a valid concern...I have been running into a similar problem with my articles, journalists assume that their readers know more than they do and you want to give up on the story halfway through because it's dry (but you can't 'cause you gotta write a blog on it) hahaha.
ReplyDeleteI also think most readers wouldn't read background information that was provided in an article. Isn't that the whole point of reading the article? So that you get the gist of what the ordinance meant without actually having to read it?
Keep up the good work!