Journalism school students could learn from Washington Post reporter Zachary Goldfarb today about burying the lede. In a short story about how “controversial” Louis Farrakhan says he may be giving his last major address, Goldfarb waited until paragraph seven to get to the kooky anti-Semitism and kissing up to enemy dictators (oops, “foreign leaders”):

During his tenure, Farrakhan had disparaged Judaism and implied that the U.S. government sought to enslave African Americans with crack cocaine. He also had cordial relations with a number of controversial foreign leaders, including Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.

He left out the praise for Hitler, the “very great man” who rebuilty Germany from the ashes. It’s truly sad when this paragraph came below Goldfarb relaying the Farrakhan address’s title was ”One Nation Under God: The Confusion, the Guidance, the Warning.” That was paragraph four.

– Tim Graham