Analysis of Trump Tweet Story in the New York Times

By Ned Leebrick-Stryker

In this analysis, I will be looking at the lede in the New York Times story about a violent tweet President Donald Trump sent out on Sunday morning. I chose to analyze this article because I think the lede the author chose to write was unconventional, especially in something that I would consider a hard news story.

Instead of cutting right to the chase, Christina Caron begins lightly. "It’s a big week for President Trump," she says, before explaining the next 7 days the president has in store for him in subsequent sentences. Caron describes Trump's coming meetings with the United Nations General Assembly alongside current issues with Iran and North Korea. In fact, it takes her a whole paragraph before she arrives at the real story: Trump's tasteless tweet regarding Hillary Clinton.

It's a little puzzling that Caron made this choice and though I consider this a hard news story, she did not. The way she approaches the article is almost a human interest story. The whole first paragraph was just setup to make you angry, annoyed and frustrated. The lede was not very strong. This appeared to be hard news to me, as I believe a president tweeting violent images of himself hitting a political opponent is reprehensible. But the world we live in now is different than it was even two years ago, and perhaps the news media has numbed to this immaturity. This was an interesting read, regardless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/us/politics/hillary-golfball-trump-tweets.html?_r=0

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