At the fiction factory

Hey, kids! Want to work for an awesome "24-hour news publication" like The Daily Caller? Let's warm up with a little exercise in getting a story from the provincial press ready for national distribution (as you can see at right, your work could soon be picked up at The Fox Nation and many other reputable organizations if you pay attention).

Here's your lede:

Students in a rural Kentucky county — and their parents — are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama.

“They say it tastes like vomit,” said Harlan County Public Schools board member Myra Mosley at a contentious board meeting last week, reports The Harlan Daily Enterprise.

Now see if you can answer these questions:

• What did the students say "tastes like vomit"?
• Whom did they address in making this complaint?
• How often is Michelle Obama mentioned in the Daily Enterprise's story?

 Let's see how your answers stack up with what the pros do!
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Today in Kenyan Muslim perfidy

The world is gray, the mountains old, the forge's fire is OMG buy GOOOOOOLD and freeze-dried food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For the communists are coming to take away the last memories of the Reagan Age.

While we're waiting for the apocalypse, we might as well unpack a few things. We're looking not just at the aggregator version of the Fair 'n' Balanced Network, we're admiring the social media version of The Washington Times: "Washington Times Communities, social journalism from independent voices*." So let's see how close we can get to the top Fox Nation headline from the actual story at hand:

A new Cold War is brewing here in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood and it has nothing to do with the frigid temperature.

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