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"Madmen who crap themselves" Not Making Fort Wayne headlines

Can the last sentence of a story be the lead?

It can for Fort Wayne area readers.  The following is the last sentence in a story about Wayne Madsen,a Washington blogger/journalist who challenged the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette's Sylvia Smith for the presidency of the National Press Club last year.

The incumbent victor was an editor at The Journal Gazette, in Fort Wayne, Ind., where madmen who crap themselves in the pursuit of power will not make the headlines.

Now you can go read the rest of the story by Christopher Ketcham at CounterPoint titled "The Revenge of the Blogger at the National Press Club".

Mr. Ketcham is described as writing for "Vanity Fair, GQ, Harper’s and many other magazines, and is currently working on a book, “The United States Must End.” " Mr. Ketcham described the National Press Club this way:

The NPC, which celebrated its centennial in 2008, was founded mostly to have a place where reporters could get blind drunk and make fools of themselves [ ... ]. Ex-president Gil Klein said recently, “I’d like to tell you [the press club] was founded for some lofty journalistic reason, like protection of the First Amendment, but the fact of the matter is that in 1908 the bars in Washington closed at midnight.”

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