Comments on: Multimedia? Sure. But you still need a nut graf http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4480/multimedia-nut-graf/ A daily newsmagazine of campus and culture for Northwestern University. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:04:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: John Kelly http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4480/multimedia-nut-graf/comment-page-1/#comment-37507 John Kelly Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:52:26 +0000 http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2007/10/4480/multimedia-nut-graf/#comment-37507 I reject Tom Giratikanon's trite editorial: "...what the rest of the piece should have." Journalism begins with facts, and TG didn't choose to observe them. Facts: This piece was attractive, as are those people. Their beauty was as important as their suffering. We are told constantly that such people live in hell, but it is rarely brought home so convincingly that they are just as beautiful and human as our families are. A nut graf was implicit throughout. Giratikanon's impatient egotism prevented him from seeing facts. I reject Tom Giratikanon’s trite editorial: “…what the rest of the piece should have.”

Journalism begins with facts, and TG didn’t choose to observe them.

Facts: This piece was attractive, as are those people. Their beauty was as important as their suffering. We are told constantly that such people live in hell, but it is rarely brought home so convincingly that they are just as beautiful and human as our families are.

A nut graf was implicit throughout. Giratikanon’s impatient egotism prevented him from seeing facts.

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