Posts Tagged ‘time’

Michelle Rhee: Not the Real Braveheart

Haven't had enough fun at the expense of Chancellor Michelle Rhee's "Braveheart" Education Next story? Head over to D.C. Wire, where Bill Turque makes a medieval jab at the profile and its over-the-top lead image:
"The accompanying story by June Kronholz is, as the picture suggests, almost uniformly admiring. Although it doesn't address what happened to [...]

Lev Grossman! You Stole My Lede.

There is nothing new under the sun, and I can't say for sure, but I'm pretty certain I'm the guy who invented the exclamation-point lede (EPL). It started with a piecelet Jule Banville and I wrote about coffee tables for oddly shaped rooms for last year's best-of issue; not totally thrilled with this foray [...]