My notes tell me as much: so many
potential standfirsts sketched out, spur - of - the - amazing - moment sparks of inspiration, captured while fresh.
Its headline is «Mean Men», and its content is briefly summarised in
its standfirst: «The priesthood is being cast as the refuge of pederasts.
The Times gave the article the headline «The Church is not trying to cover anything up» and
the standfirst «Catholics are shamed by child abuse allegations.
The IT world has ADSL and quad - core processors, mariners use GLONASS and lazarettes and journalists refer to
standfirsts and copy.
Don't lead with the false statement in the headline or
the standfirst (the introductory paragraph), and don't succumb to false equivalence («Views on the shape of the Earth differ.»)
The standfirst has also been amended to remove a reference to the whips.
`... is not chronically out of date» in
your standfirst should surely be `... is now chronically out of date»
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the standfirst above I described this as a historic session, but if it is it's an astonishingly boring historic session.
• Have you researched the publication's recent archive of features, checking headline styles,
standfirsts, voice, favored topics and image use?
The standfirst initially stated that Glasgow was the capital of Scotland.
As a journalist myself, when I detect total crap in
the standfirst I tend to skip to the last couple of paragraps which usually contains the real story.