findbrookehanna.com
Has the founder of Hanna’s Candles kidnapped her own daughter and run away to Switzerland? Read “Mother facing arrest in Hanna custody dispute” (NWA Times) for details.
RIP FEDC
The Fayetteville Economic Development Council won’t be around much longer. “Fayetteville plans economic development shift to chamber” (NWA Times) is your key to more infos if you need ‘em.
Free dang mulch
The University of Arkansas has too much mulch. Is that even possible? Must be: “University of Arkansas offers free mulch to community” (NWA Times).
New FHS
If you’re interested in some talk about the new Fayetteville High School design plans, just click the words that appear directly after this sentence. “Fayetteville High School Design Comes Together” (Morning News).
@NWA Times Brook Hanna story: The lede–”A former Fayetteville woman who founded Hanna’s Candles with her now ex-husband after making potpourri in their basement faces a felony arrest warrant over the custody of their daughter”–is structurally confusing, then thematically nonsensical once you sort it out. What’s the relevancy of them 1) making potpourri 2) in the basement? What could the origin of the candle company possibly have to do with their missing daughter? Also, “now”? Was that adverb really necessary?
Then this: “His daughter’s Facebook page also says she’s missing and asks for help.” I might pass over the lede weirdness as a bored reporter rolling his eyes at eccentric family drama, but this is faulty writing. A website can’t “say” or “ask” anything. Attributing the responsibility of the content of that page to the website indicates an embarrassing lack of understanding of the nature of the site. What’s more, it invokes the troubling insinuation that the girl altered her own profile to say she was missing and that she’s asking for help. (I’m trusting that this treatment is not AP style for dealing with the new webnets and if I’m wrong, high five AP for knowing how to stay in business by exuding cultural cognizance and relevancy.)
This is all, however, beating around the bush of the real grievance, which is wtf, belly-button piercing, jet-setting, “huge settlements,” speculative FBI and US Marshals involvement, snide ex-spouse sniping–is this supposed to be a crime report? I generally hit up the TMZ for my hyperbolic custody battle nonsense, not my regional newspaper. Lord almighty.