Friday, January 14, 2011

Daily News Writer Baffles Mind with Terrible Journalism


Brandon Johnson's life changed instantly after a butter knife fell out of his pocket earlier this school year.He was handcuffed to a bench in his former school's police office, arrested, and then suspended for 10 days. He was later transferred to a disciplinary school.

Now let me stop right here because the rest of this article is pointless and the money line is in the opening paragraph. This kid had a butter knife in his pocket, it fell out, he got in trouble. Okay sounds normal. Well 47 paragraphs later and we still don't know WHY THIS KID HAD A BUTTER KNIFE IN HIS POCKET? Is he just walking around putting cream cheese on peoples bagels? Are butter knives weapons in inner city Philadelphia? I mean Dafney Tales you lead with a punch line and you come back later to fill us in. This is journalism 101. It's first day stuff. Amateur hour.

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