Writing Feature Articles, 4th Edition

Foreword: From a writer

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was an American sitcom based in the newsroom of WJM-TV, a small television station in Minneapolis. Tyler Moore, although the nominal star, as often as not let herself be the foil to the kinds of inflated or disappointed egos you find in any newsroom. Among them was Murray Slaughter, the news bulletin’s chief writer who had aspirations but probably not the talent to graduate to greater things (Gavin MacLeod, who played him, went on to star in The Love Boat – thus do the gods mock us all). In one episode, Mary brought a 15-year old who wanted to be a journalist in to see him. ‘Do you like writing?’ the boy asked. ‘Let me see,’sighed Murray. ‘I like getting paid for what I write. I like reading ...