Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Okay, end of the week, poll up later. Today's Moment comes from Salon, and proves that, no matter what you think of the Administration, no one should be the subject of an article that begins thusly:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from the Toronto Star's coverage of the Robert Pickton trial. Pickton is the charming Canadian fellow who chopped up at least 26 prostitutes on his British Columbia pig farm and ground up their bodies. How best to set the scene? Check the lede:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from a recent Nation review of a bunch of books about the state of the electorate and what Democrats can do to win it over. It goes beyond your usual Nation nap-inducing prose (although see if you can stay awake during even this excerpt) to bring you through some kind of C.S. Lewis-style armoire into a thicket of metaphor from which you emerge, squinting, into some strange new world full of delusional liberals and arrogant vegetarians. It's a world not unlike Berkeley, CA, actually. We've placed it after the jump, but please do click through: We've yet to see a better test of endurance thus far this year:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from the Cooper Point Journal, the student newspaper of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. It concerns the recent spate of inclement weather they've experienced in the Pacific Northwest. The rain has put our correspondent in a deeply reflective mood ("Like so many of my generation, I've been there and done that in high school. When I die, it'll be with scars that come from living without armor."), and it provides us with this keeper:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. The polls have closed, and your winner is that Parl Slope Courier bit on the blind. We're going to send the paper a Relief bag of its own, just for times when reporters get so involved with the crafting of a story that they can't step away from their desks. After the jump, Warren St. John.

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Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address.End of the week, poll up later, you're familiar with the procedure. As to today's Moment: Okay, pulling something from a site called "Women's E-News" and labeling it journalism is probably a stretch, but, you know, whatever, it's Friday. In any event, did you know that underage girls are sometimes allowed into bars in sheer contravention of the law? Liz Funk offers a sizzling expose, and turns to an expert on the matter:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment comes from the Chicago Sun-Times and is a cautionary tale as to why sometimes it's better to just give a straight lede, rather than fucking around.

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. We're not even sure how to describe today's Moment, so we're just gonna put it up here:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Your Moment today would not be so glaring had it appeared anywhere other than the normally sure-footed Economist, but it did and it is. Here ya go:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. The polls have closed, and your winner is Carolyn See, for her bit of salad-dressing misdirection in a book review of a Joan Crawford bio. Carolyn receives a wire hanger for the honor. Today's Moment is sort of a cheap shot, since God knows it's hard enough to write supporting copy for a paragraph or two describing a photo that appears in Vogue. Still, give the Post's Marianne Garvey credit: It's not just any old hack who, upon looking at the picture of a scantily clad Renee Zellwegger petting a bunny, can churn out a lede like, "It's the gorgeous and the hare," which, even were it delivered in the slurred cadence of Dick Clark, would still not rhyme in any language. Good work. [The article doesn't appear to be online. Which is probably wise.]

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We generally restrict our nominations to one a day, but sometimes a lede comes along that's just too good to pass up. Here ya go:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Okay, kids, end of the week, poll up in the afternoon. In the meantime, your final Moment comes from that bastion of fine journalism, the New York Press:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. This Moment came from an article in the Times over the weekend concerning the Voluntary Disclosure Form, a record of a suspect's statement to police after an arrest "despite a constitutional right to remain silent that is ingrained not only in criminal law, but also in popular culture." Check the lede:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Your Moment today comes from Carolyn See, and contains one of the most unlikely transitions we've seen so far. You'll think you know where it's going, but you'll be wrong:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Today's Moment tracks the reactions after a recent storm in the Northwest. Here's your lede:

Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. The polls have closed, and your winner is Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who penned the immemorial phrase "Abraham Lincoln went to the theater to relax." Sheryl wins a copy of Thomas Mallon's Henry and Clara; now she belongs to the ages. Today's Moment after the jump.

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Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Your Moment today comes from a Clyde Haberman column about Wesley Autrey, the subway savior, whose story has yet to cause a ripple of suspicion over even the vast pool of our cynicism. Haberman correctly calls it "the No. 1 feel-good story of 2007." Sadly, he doesn't stop there. It's a piece full of Moments (e.g., "Frankly, we can see why many New Yorkers, men or women, might want to diet simply to fit into subway seats. Some of the made-in-Japan cars seem designed for made-in-Japan rumps, not New Yorkers' wider beams. You want to talk about trans fats? Try transit fat.") we're choosing this one as your nominee: