BETHANY JENKINS and HUGH SON report in the Daily News: The city Health Department reports that 1 in 3 women in Prospect Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, East New York and Brownsville are overweight; Brooklynwide, only 24% of women are overweight. However, the article fails to say how the Health Department defines “overweight,” and it’s not clear if “1 in 3” applies to those neighborhoods individually or collectively.
Bonus: It took not one but two writers to mess up the lead (as of 4:51 PM, subject/verb agreement error). But hey, Microsoft Word doesn’t give you one of those green squigglies when you type “Brooklyn woman are losing the battle of the bulge.”
lede. not lead.
Lede’s not in my dictionary, and newspapers are no longer set in metal type (lead), so it may be safe to go back to using “lead.”
touche
Stop calling me fat.