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kleinbl00  ·  2577 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Donald Trump’s Worst Deal

Because it's 8,000 fucking words of New Yorker goodness. I read the Vox TL;DR - "t’s a very long New Yorker-y story that deserves your time and attention" - but it still only swirls around this final point:

- Davidson quotes an expert on Iran who says “It looks like Azarpassillo is a front organization for the Revolutionary Guard.”

So. It's a Seymour Hersch without Seymour Hersch, who would have led with "Trump Organization Laundered Money For Iran."

Give it a few. Thing is, we're at the point where "laundered money for Iran" is one of the least crazy things of the week.





b_b  ·  2577 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The title of this piece in confounding, to use an understatement. Talk about burying the lead. It's as if they don't want people to read it. It's not a literary or rhetorical exercise; it's an expose of the fucking President doing illegal business with one of our biggest adversaries. I read it at lunch today, and my lunch break turned a lot longer than I originally had anticipated.

goobster  ·  2577 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My Copy-editor pedantry is coming out. I apologize in advance.

The phrase is, "Burying the lede."

Yes, "lead" is grammatically correct, but lede, graf, slug, byline, and other words have a specific meaning in the editing world. And we'd like to keep them, please!