The inverted pyramid may be obsolete as a newswriting model, but its influence lingers in what Mike Feinsilber call "last-things-first" writing — sentences that run in reverse chronological order. Feinsilber explains: "Even inside the story, where the urgency to blurt out the news has been satisfied, we find last-things-first sentences. That makes no sense. It forces the reader to read the sentence and then reconstruct it in his mind to make it make sense."
