Being able to write an article and explain a complicated situation can be a challenge. Unlike TV, readers only have what’s in black and white to create their visual image of the issue. I sometimes chuckle when things don’t go quite as planned. Take this quote from today’s Joplin Globe regarding a barn fire.
“Turner said no injuries were reported. Several bales of hay and a backhoe inside the barn burned in the blaze.
The owner of the barn was not fully identified.”
I found the last sentence funny because I started filling in my own reality:
Did he burn up too and they only find a shoe? (That was not the case.)
Did the police report say “barn reportedly owned by someone named ‘Joe’”?
Did a witness say “Well, Bobby had that until the divorce, but I think Doreen got the north half in the settlement.”
Maybe it wasn’t as funny as I thought, but it did make me chuckle.
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