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Second-Day Lede
Thursday, July 22, 2004
  "...And the Clinton administration before that"

We interrupt our summer hiatus with this breaking news: CNN's William Schneider just reported that the families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks not only pressured the Bush administration, but "the Clinton administration before that", for an independent commission to investigate the intelligence failures and other shortcomings that allowed the attacks to happen.

Hope he gets an extra jelly bean for sticking to the GOP talking points, even though that required bending not only the truth but the laws of physics.

The Clinton administration ended on January 20, 2001. The attacks happened in September, 2001. The victims weren't victims until September, and that means the families of the victims weren't families of the victims until then. Nonetheless, Schneider tells the world, the families were prescient enough to begin demanding an investigation nearly a year before there were attacks to investigate.

If that's the case, Mr. Schneider, then let's hope the 9/11 Commission report recommends putting those families of victims in charge of our nation's security from now on, since they apparently are able to see the future.

We now return you to our summer hiatus, already in progress. 




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What's a Second-Day Lede?

"Second-day lede" is journalistic jargon for putting a new spin on a story for a second or subsequent news cycle. A 'lede" is the lead sentence of an article, deliberately misspelled to make it more easily recognizable as jargon. Once upon a time, news moved in daily cycles, but now it has become a constant flow of rewrites and "second-day ledes."

Second-Day Lede is also the name of this blog, where you'll find commentary on the news, and especially on the industry that cultivates, harvests, processes, packages, distributes and delivers it to us.

Who's writing this stuff?

A veteran of more news cycles than she'd care to admit, Janet Dagley Dagley entered the profession of journalism as a teenager, covering local government meetings at night for the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, becoming a full-time staff writer at 18 and later moving on to the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition). Over the years she has worked as a freelance writer, editor, and radio producer in the U.S. and Europe. Although she has won numerous awards, she lost both times major metropolitan dailies submitted her work for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing, and also lost on Jeopardy! (though she did win a trip to Hawaii). Most recently, she was editor of AIRSPACE, the journal of the Association of Independents in Radio, a U.S.-based group of public-radio producers, and a member of the AIR Board of Directors. She has been blogging independently at The Dagley Dagley Daily since February, 2003.




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