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For our snowpocalypse assignment, I decided it would be most convenient to visit washingtonpost.com to find a worthy article.  And wow, all I can say is the Post is definitely having a riot over there!  Amidst headlines such as “Here we go. Again.” and “S’now joke: Another major storm coming,” I came across what I found to be a uniquely personal touch on the local blizzard conditions.  The article, titled “Pizzamaker braves snow to deliver on Super Bowl Sunday,”  written by Staff Writer Christian Davenport, appeared online today.  Basically it talks about how Todd Wiss, owner of Radius Pizza in Mount Pleasant, went out on his own in dangerous road conditions to deliver pizzas on Super Bowl Sunday when his delivery drivers’ cars were stuck in the snow.  Why?  As Wiss put it, “It’s not what I went to culinary school for, but the bank doesn’t care that it snowed.”  The article can be found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/07/AR2010020702972.html.

Davenport presented this storm news in a way that was interesting because he chose to highlight a presumably average citizen display something heroic.  In this case, it was sharing the story of a basic pizza restaurant owner exemplifying great commitment to his business in a time of adversity.  The news values of this piece included the bizarre or unusual and currency.  It pertained to the bizzare or unusual because not very often — correction, EVER — do we hear about pizza OWNERS taking on the delivery role of their lower end employees.  In terms of currency, considering the blizzard that hit the Northern Virginia area is still greatly affecting its inhabitants, the topic of this article is certainly current enough to write about.  Overall, I would definitely say that it succeeded in making me interested in a familar story.