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click on the link, and the source has some quotes, but not too many since it'll drag down the story. Again, the news story online will have the: who, what, (etc.) details, but it will not be overloaded with them. There are not too many details since online news is an alternative to newspapers and online news is designed to be faster with the same important facts as newspapers.

In the New York Times, a typical news feature story will have numerous short grafs, which is a journalistic term for paragraphs. Each graf has a purpose and is made out of four or five sentences. The first graf is the lead which can either be a direct or indirect lead. A direct lead is like the first sentences of an online story. They give the reader a brief description of what the story will be about. An indirect lead can either be told by the writer as a personal introduction, or it is from another angle of the story that will evolve into the article. The second graf is the hoo-hah graf, is about why the reader should care what the story is about and how the story has some importance or relevance to the reader. The online news story does not have this paragraph of why the story is important to the reader. It just gives the facts because it has such a limited amount of space to give the necessary information. The hoo-hah graf shows that the reader will have to spend some time with the article because there will be so much detail. The rest of the article after the hoo-hah graf is the body of the article. The typical number of sentences in a graf from a news feature article from the New York Times is made out of four or five sentences. At the end of the article there is a kicker which brings the entire story together. (Schreiber, Paul. "Structure of Feature Stories." Journalism 288 lecture, Humanities Building, Stony Brook University. 13 Sept. 2005). An article from the New York Times can break this whole system down easier.

In an article from The New York Times on December 5th, 2005, about the Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr., the first paragraph discusses the influence of his father on his current philosophy. The second paragraph, or hoo-hah graf, is about how his father's legacy touches him, showing the reader and the public that if Mr. Alito is chosen, he will be inspired by his father's legacy. The third paragraph in the article is about his memories from his childhood of his father's hard work and persistency in the justice system. These paragraphs carry the thread of the

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