Too Long?

An anonymous tipster writes in:

“I know you’ve published some stuff about the ombudsman there saying the Post’s ledes these days are out of control long. This one is 67 words. 67. Sure, rules are meant to be broken, and we all break them here and there. But 67 is more than double the word amount that journalism professors in the district call the limit, which is 30.”

Readers, what do you think? Here’s the opener (from this

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