Sacrifices

In class we spoke about how to make a story about the event, and not to profile anybody. In this article from CNN, about everyday people making sacrifices to be able to eat or feed their families, the beginning starts with a compelling story of a man who has to skip meals to have enough food to last him for the month. It is a sad story of an elderly man who admits that he did not want to receive aid from the federal government. Then it goes into talking about the federal aid programs that assist people with food stamps or funding for food. I think it created a great lede in that it focused on one person, but it related to the whole article. Through out the article, it uses other individual stories of their struggles and how the programs have helped or did not help them as much as they expected. It used sort of an in and out method of personal story, then big story.