Great Moments in Journalism: Clotting and Clumping
Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from the Toronto Star's coverage of the Robert Pickton trial. Pickton is the charming Canadian fellow who chopped up at least 26 prostitutes on his British Columbia pig farm and ground up their bodies. How best to set the scene? Check the lede:
The details ooze and congeal - like blood.
God, it's always the similes that do it, isn't it?
'I was gonna do one more - make it an even 50' [Toronto Star]