Editor,
I was very disappointed by an article in Tuesday's paper. The story covered last weekend's live performance of several bands at the Launchpad.
It is a valuable and considerably rare opportunity for your paper and local bands of such caliber to potentially reciprocate in the way they did at the show last Friday. Unfortunately, the story failed to reciprocate with the magic of the evening and read as if it had been written in 15 minutes.
The photos were wonderful except when grouped with the cover caption, referring curious readers to page "x" in the Lobo and misspelling Felonious. I'm guessing maybe that's somewhere near the back.
For a story that spans two pages of your magazine why were only the last two paragraphs dedicated to the headlining act? I've never seen a music review start with the first 11 paragraphs dedicated to the opening acts and only one to the headline. Tsk, Tsk. This left readers just as unfulfilled as they were exhausted by the time they got to the end.
The inverted pyramid form of journalistic writing is the most commonly used because it works.
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Just because a story covers an informal event it doesn't give the reporter a duty to write informally or unprofessionally. Albuquerque is a town bubbling over with innovation, excitement and heritage and many readers would just like to be assured that your paper can reflect that.
Todd Lovato
UNM senior and broadcast journalism major
