My nominee is the tired lede “What a difference a day (week, month, year, epoch) makes.<\/strong>” It fits just about anything one covers as news, as long as something has changed, from City Council meetings (MERIDEN — What a
\ndifference a day makes. An ordinance banning parking downtown was passed Monday, etc.) to historical events. (HIROSHIMA, Japan — What a difference a day makes. An atomic bomb devastated, etc.). Why anyone would think this a clever way to start a story is beyond me, but we still encounter it, here and in the pages of other papers, regularly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Howard Glazer, copy editor with the Record-Journal in Meriden, Conn., shares this irksome occurrence: My nominee is the tired lede “What a difference a day (week, month, year, epoch) makes.” It fits just about anything one covers as news, as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}