Attributions

The story I analyzed was found on the Star Tribune's website and is about two teenagers who have been charged with six counts of murder in a grocery store robbing.

The first attribution in the story was different than we have learned in class.  The attribution was put in front of and at the beginning of a paragraph rather than after the first quote is used.  The attribution also said that the statement was from a lawyer and that was put before the lawyers name, which I found to be different than what I  am used to and saw in class.  This was done twice with both quotes that are used in the newspaper article with two different speakers.  They are also both very close to one another; one paragraph followed by another paragraph.  I think this makes the quote rather confusing to the reader because readers like to know what the speaker said before finding out who they are.  I believe that it adds for more excitement to an article not predicting what the speaker may have said.

Although other sources were used when writing this article, none are specifically mentioned.  The article says that there four people who testified on the grand jury for the indictments on the defendants, but the writer of the article does not address where they know this information from.  Whether it is from the Minneapolis Police Department or if they were at the grand jury when the witnesses testified I am unsure.  I believe this article could have had more references and sources named.  This is also only in one short paragraph not giving the reader much information about their sources.