I agree with the decision for the reporter who wrote the Fighting Cancer article to begin with a delayed lede. While it's an amazing story, I don't feel like it's the type of breathless news we've been discussing in class these past weeks. I couldn't find any lede types I disagreed with on the front page - go figure - so I decided to try the next few pages. Like I suspected, most were direct ledes, with only one or two delayed ledes in the first ten pages of section A. These articles that had normal ledes were "breathless" news stories, and deserved the regular ledes, but I found myself wanting more variety as I read through. After a while, none of the articles stood out to me except the Fighting Cancer article. I had more of an emotional connection to that article because - in the lede - a woman found out she's cancer-free and celebrated.
Wow. I really just killed the emotion of that lede in less than 25 words!
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