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

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!