The greatest lead, ever!

Poststructural Pub
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The second sentence of this Guardian article has to be one of the best leads ever written.

The U.K. Guardian (June 28, 2005)

Our very own Enron - All it has delivered is one financial scandal after another - but the government remains wedded to PFI By George Monbiot

How much longer can this farce carry on? > Everywhere the chickens released by the government’s private finance initiative are not so much coming home to roost as crashing into the henhouse and sliding down the wall in a heap of blood and feathers. > The prediction made in 2002 by the Banker magazine - that “eventually an Enron-style disaster will be rerun on a sovereign balance sheet” - could be starting to materialise. The private finance initiative (PFI) is the scheme allowing private corporations to build and run our public services and lease them back to the government. The government says that this allows it to commission more schemes than it could with public funds, and offers better value for money. And it doesn’t seem to matter how often the story falls apart.

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Excellent. :thumbsup:

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Can’t you just imagine the would be prose-writer slaving away as an inkstain, his talents being squandered on the mundane world of corporate greed? I wonder if he uses alliteration in his headlines if he can, too? :laughing:

One of our reporters here does free-lance writing, goes to seminars, studies the marketing possibilites, etc. etc. I know that her task of writing news stories in a retirement community has to be a bit..unfulfilling. When I started this job, I had hoped to do some writing (I am a production artist) because I was a good writer in college days, interned at a big daily,etc. But since I got here, I am happy to design ads and layouts rather than re-write the latest goings on of the social clubs, etc. here.