in Northern Malaya, 300 miles north of Singapore, today and bombed this great British naval stronghold, causing small loss of life among civilians and property damage.”“The metropolitan district reacted swiftly yesterday to the Japanese attack in the Pacific.”“War broke with lightening suddenness in the Pacific today when waves of Japanese bombers attacked Hawaii this morning and the United States Fleet struck back with a thunder of big naval rifles.”“Japan was accused by Secretary of State Cordell Hull today of making a ‘treacherous and utterly unprovoked attack’ upon the United States and of having been ‘infamously false and fraudulent’ by preparing for the attack while conducting diplomatic negotiations with the professed desire of maintaining peace.”And finally, “Sudden and unexpected attacks on Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, and other United States possessions in the Pacific early yesterday by the Japanese air force and navy plunged the United States and Japan in to active war.”Following the inverted pyramid model, each of the stories with the leads listed above continues by listing the remaining facts in order of importance or told the entire story in chronological order. The inverted pyramid allows the reader to get the most important by reading just the first graph of a story. In order to get as much reader-attracting news onto the front page as possible, the Times along with most other papers, began putting just the beginning of the most prominent stories on the front page, and continuing the stories elsewhere in the paper. Another point of interest is that by World War II, reporters’s names are being included at the head of their stories, which was not seen during the Great War. This is evidence that reporting had become a much more respected profession and that reporters wanted credit for what they wrote, not just a pay check.Between the Civil W...
