The Associated Press Guide to News Writing Chapter 9 Review
Writing is like cooking. For cooking you need
to have the ingredients flow, work together, and be properly cooked. In news
writing you need your words to flow and sound good with your story. The words
need to have color. In the ninth chapter of the Associated Press Guide to News Writing by Rene J. Cappon, the
chapter talks about color in news writing. This week we will be looking at the
ninth chapter in Cappon’s book.
Cappon writes that color is matter of the right
details that are observed directly from witnesses, with the breath of
actuality. Color helps give a precision of visual detail and paints a vivid image
in a story. Color is a way of seeing a story which allows reporters to give
their readers insight to the story. Colors are words that are for description and
insight into a story.
This chapter was hard to follow because of the
way Cappon paced it. Cappon gives quite a bit of examples in this chapter but
he doesn’t explain why these examples were perfect for color or why they lacked
them. The chapter felt like it lacked
the communication that Cappon wanted to convey with the message for this chapter.
This was a weak chapter and it feels like Cappon’s chapters are getting
progressively worse as the book is draws closer towards the end.
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