Last week, we posted a piece on an inflammatory, student-written article concerning a powwow held on a campus in Long Beach, California. The writer and editor-in-chief have since apologized for running it. That apology (and several letters to the editor) can be found on the first two pages of the “68-08” issue of their newspaper.
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It was a pitiful excuse for an apology in my opinion.
He says “what was originally meant as a unflattering view”. This does not tell me he had any intention other then to trash the event.
What happened to the 5-W’s?
The part below copied from Wiki-pedia:
The principle underlying the maxim is that each question should elicit a factual answer — facts necessary to include for a report to be considered complete. Importantly, none of these questions can be answered with a simple “yes” or “no”.
The context of the “news style” for newspaper reporting, the Five W’s are types of facts that should be contained in the “lead” or first two or three paragraphs of the story, after which more expository writing is allowed.