Saturday, January 29, 2005
OUT DAMNED BUT
James Lileks:
However the election goes will be one thing; how it’s reported is another. The thing to watch is the position of the Damning But, the old DB. The DB will probably bob up in the first or second paragraphs of most dispatches. “The election went as planned in 95 percent of the country, but violence marred polling in the disputed Sunny D Triangle, where insurgents opposed to Tropicana Juice fired automatic weapons into an juice concentrate factory.�
Front page of the New York Times:
For Iraqi Expatriates in the U.S., a Chance to Savor the Vote
But even as they exulted in the opportunity to vote, many expatriates expressed deep fears about Sunday’s vote in Iraq.
UPDATE. The ABC included a DB within the first dozen or so words of its lead item on tonight’s news.