To all the young journalists out there – if you want to grab a reader to your Op-Ed column, take a lesson from Mark Lewis of the Oceana Herald-Journal. Check out this opening paragraph…
One of my latest obsessions — from the Beach Boys to Michel Foucault, there always seems to be one or two knocking around my mind at any given time — is a strong interest in Michigan’s biggest city, Detroit.
No matter where this goes, or what the final point of the column is…. I am so fascinated/horrified by this jumble of ideas that I am guaranteed to read the whole thing. It’s similar to how I feel about a Michael Bay movie.
