When you’ve been arrested for a DUI and driving with a suspended license, and neither of those facts make the lede of the news story written about your traffic stop, you know something completely bizarre happened.
Evidence, the first sentence of this news story:
LIMA: Ohio troopers say when they did a traffic stop on a pickup truck, they found the driver was riding with a dead man in the passenger seat.
This article appears in Jul 13-19, 2011.
Could have been the designated driver.
It may not have made the “lede” but it definitely had an interesting LEAD. Spellcheck is your friend. It would have caught this one.
@bonnjill Hey! Maude here. How are you? Have to make a point to catch up with you guys soon. Anway, actually, the word “lede” is correct in journalism-speak to designate the beginning of an article. It was supposedly used in the newspaper industry beginning in the 1960s in order to have a word that would not be confused with “lead” which often indicated the metal-type lead used in typesetting equipment. Now that there are no lead typesetters, “lede” is not needed and the professional journalists who still use “lede” are often accused of being pretentious. But hey, at Scene, we’ll keep our pretentiousness.