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Can You Say Lede of The Day?

April 22, 2009

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Try saying this lede — from the Wall Street Journal‘s Digits blog today– five times, fast, aloud:

A heated, multimedia gay-marriage discussion spanning YouTube, blogs, Twitter, Larry King and The Hills ensued after Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean answered a question about the topic during the pageant’s question-and-answer period, sparking more than one million views of the clip, debates on cable news and even a tweet from Britney Spears.

Phew. (And the award for Forcing All of This Week’s Most-Googled Words Into A Single Sentence Without Regard For Reader’s Comprehension goes to…)

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.