New York Times Reading Log, Tuesday Oct.11 2011

A lot of news in todays paper. I was especially interested in one story regarding a ship disaster in Miami. It was a heart-felt story describing the disaster that happened leading to the boat sinking and its passangers being left in the water. Seven of the eight members were saved, including a young child. One member, the captains mother unfortunately went under when the boat sank. The other members were left in the water for twenty hours before rescue crews saved them. All they had to hang on to was a blue cooler for boyancy and two life jackets. This is news that you sometimes hear about, but never believe to be true. I found it a unique story to the New York Times. What first grabbed my attention about this story was the lead. It was an expanded summary lead in which I attempted to immatete on our in class exercise. (See post below for the in class exercise).