The document discusses 11 potential leads for a news article about a Student Government Association initiative to show classic movies for free on campus as an alternative to $2 Tuesday movies at the local theater. The instructor Bruce Clary asks students to critique each lead, pointing out its strengths and weaknesses. The leads provide varying levels of context about the movie series, including details about dates, times, locations and films. Students are to analyze how well each lead engages the reader with relevant information.

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Writing Straight News Stories
Critiquing Leads and Inverted Pyramid Structure
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Critiquing Leads
The leads on the following slides are all possible leads
for News Writing Exercise #1, which you completed for
today’s class session.
Critique each lead pointing out its strengths and
weaknesses.
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SGA will be sponsoring a free series of classic
movies at an alternative to the the movie night at
B & B Theatres..
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A free alternative to $2 movie nights will be
available on campus starting Tuesday.
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There is a new idea for a free alternative to $2
Tuesday movie nights.
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Students looking for an alternative $2 Tuesday at
B & B Theatres are in the money.
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“Hollywood Classics,” a no-cost film series for
students, will be hosted on the McPherson
College campus starting Oct. 2 with the movie
“Moby Dick.”
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On Oct. 6 at 9 p.m., SGA will start a free-
admission, classical movie night with the movie
“Moby Dick” in Melhorn 112.
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McPherson College students who cannot afford
to see movies downtown are now being offered
an alternative.
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“Moby Dick,” starring Gregory Peck, will have a
free showing in Melhorn at 112 at 9 p.m., Oct. 6
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Students who lack the money or transportation
to B & B Theatres on $2 Tuesday movie nights
now have an alternative.
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Bad movies with issues of inappropriate
language and content have led to a proposal for
a new campus event at McPherson College.
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Concerns about the expense and content of
movies at the popular $2 Tuesdays at B & B
Theatres have led SGA to approve a “Hollywood
Classics” movie series that will show at the same
time on campus at no charge.
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