Dan Caterinicchia Article

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I'm going to start with the headline first off. I like it for a less formal publishing and it definitely catches the reader's eye, but it could be seen as a bit too opinionated. I would like to have seen you combine the first two paragraphs into one lead graph. I think the comparison between years ago and today should be within the same sentence as far as a lead goes. There were a lot of good statistics and comparisons of different times. I also liked the people you got to quote, but I thought there was a bit too much of you saying something for them and not having more full, complete quotes. I'd be fine with that normally, but it happened a few times throughout the piece. There were some good explanations of what everything meant, but there were also a few times when jargon or scenarios that might be confusing to the average reader were used that could have been clarified more.

The paragraph that started with, "Another factor in the muted response...," almost felt like it was something thrown in at the end. There wasn't much of a smooth transition to it and thought you probably could have wove it in somewhere else in the story a little better. I especially liked this phrase you used; "the psychologically important threshold of $100 a barrel." I thought this was very well said and conveyed the importance of that specific price.

The ending was a little awkward to me. Someone accusing the White House of something, I think, should be a little higher up in the story. The end paragraph was also a bit of a let down. I feel as though you might have been able to give a better kicker or something that would stick with the reader more than the current closing paragraph.



The website itself didn't have much in the way of multimedia, but it was a bit difficult to find more of your articles with multimedia. The site did have a lot of links to other articles, however. There are numerous links to more articles from this specific newspaper, articles from that date, and articles from the journalist. They also made blogging about this specific article possible and sharing ability through email, facebook,and twitter very easily accessible.