http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/world/americas/05colombia.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
This article is about a Colombian army commander resigning because of the recent suspicion about the ethics of the Colombian army. It talks about the things he has done wrong in the past couple of months and eventually touches on other human rights violations that have recently occurred in Latin America.
This article is definitely a hard news story because it covers the resignation of the Colombian army commander after a scandal over the amount of civilians killed by Colombian armed forces in recent years.
The lede is definitely the first sentence: "The commander of Colombia’s army resigned Tuesday after an investigation tied dozens of military personnel under his command to an intensifying scandal over the killing of civilians by the armed forces in what apparently were attempts to inflate the number of insurgents or criminal gang members killed in combat by security forces."
It addresses who resigned, why they resigned, when it occurred, and where it occurred. The nut graph is in the following paragraph, where it elaborates on the facts that are addressed in the lede. The story definitely follows an inverted pyramid structure as well, because it gives the specific details of what the Colombian army and the commander have been doing to the country for months.
This article is definitely a hard news story because it covers the resignation of the Colombian army commander after a scandal over the amount of civilians killed by Colombian armed forces in recent years.
The lede is definitely the first sentence: "The commander of Colombia’s army resigned Tuesday after an investigation tied dozens of military personnel under his command to an intensifying scandal over the killing of civilians by the armed forces in what apparently were attempts to inflate the number of insurgents or criminal gang members killed in combat by security forces."
It addresses who resigned, why they resigned, when it occurred, and where it occurred. The nut graph is in the following paragraph, where it elaborates on the facts that are addressed in the lede. The story definitely follows an inverted pyramid structure as well, because it gives the specific details of what the Colombian army and the commander have been doing to the country for months.
The story ends with a pretty standard quote kicker, which I think is effective because it's an issue on which readers must form their own opinions. I also think the inverted pyramid structure is effective because it presents a complicated issue as simply as possible. A story in ABAB structure would be much more confusing for this topic because names and policies of one country would get confused with those of another.
Overall, I thought it was an effective, unbiased article on a sensitive topic that was organized very well and easy to understand.
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