Herald-Dispatch Critique: Thursday, Oct. 22

The Thursday, Oct. 22 edition of The Herald-Dispatch was a relatively clean, major mistake free edition as the previous editions were.  There were no macro-editing issues and it featured solely micro-editing issues.  

The reoccurring theme of ending a lead paragraph with the time element was an issue.  Other issues included occasional wordiness, cliches, beginning a lead paragraph with a prepositional phrase and editorializing.  

But overall, this edition continued the theme of the previous editions and was well written and professional from start to finish.  The Herald-Dispatch is a high quality newspaper that continuously provides well written stories.