Reuters, the author of this article, begins telling the most relevant information: "gay right activists in New York City dumped vodka onto the street" in front of the Russian embassy, so that they could protest against Russian laws targeting homosexuals. Additionally, gay bar owners followed the same, all beggining with a "Seatle-based sex advice columnist Dan Savage", who wrote "'There is something we can do right here (...) DUMP RUSSIAN VODKA'" in his column. Gay bar owners didn't only dump vodka, but stopped serving them. These events were triggered by an event; the killing and torturing of "a 23-year-old man" after getting out of the closet to a friend in Russia. Putin, the president, also prohibited homosexual couples' parenting and another law "bannig gay 'progaganda'". However, a vodka brand, Stolichyana Vodka, had its parent company's chief executive publicly declare that they do support LGBT rights. On behalf of this information, a gay bar owner in San Francisco disbanded from the boycott.
The introduction is well-made by explaining the title. However, the author wanders around between multiple informations, but slow enough to make the reader absorb the information. Some flaws regarding the excessive use of pronouns must be noted; the author uses "he" on both situations when Savage and the chief executive are being mentioned, temporarily confusing the reader until the passage is read multiple times. Also, the excess of information, whose existence is indifferent to the relevance of the report, is deteriorating the quality of the news. A certain passage informs that Russia will hold the Winter Olympics next year, and that "an Olympic boycott (is) neither practical nor necessarily desirable". It should be noted that the author only throws information around the air, and does not knit it altogether to make such structure that when bulletpoints are added, it is difficult to separate them.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/07/31/world/europe/31reuters-usa-vodka-boycott.html?ref=world
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