THE KANSAS CITY STAR: The Star Copy Style (heavily influenced Hemingway's writing style)

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[IronJack]

No, it comes from the sensationalization of the "news" and the attempt to make every story a gripper, whether there's any substance there or not. So the ledes are either cutesy, melodramatic, or insipidly lacking in detail, all to drive you deeper into the copy.

Editors found out some time ago that readers were basically just scanning the headlines and reading the ledes. You know, kinda like what happens on FR. ;)

[Hot Tabasco]

He always seemed to be the kind of person who’d be fun to hang around with.

Back in the 50's my uncle, who was chartering a sailboat, met Hemingway in Cuba.......

Hemingway had strong ties to northern Michigan, especially Horton's Bay where he spent much time at my great grandfather's garage talking about cars and trout fishing.........

[odawg]

I was never a big fan of Hemingway until I saw what he did with a news report he had written about an incident in the Spanish civil war. He took it and turned it into literature.

Unfortunately he followed some of the fads of the day in his writing — stream of consciousness which I can’t abide.

[odawg]

That was “Old Man at the Bridge” he wrote from his news report.

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[onedoug]

Interesting. I saw that way back in journalism at LACC.

[pax_et_bonum]

Hemingway? Wow!

I wonder if he got any ideas for his characters from some of the locals who your family knew.