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Bert Robbins
 
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Default OT--More news that didn't make today's news


"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
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NOYB wrote:
It didn't make the news that the vast majority of this country turns
to each evening.

Really? I guess nobody carries the AP wire service, huh?

You were wrong before, and you're wrong now.


What they carry, and what they choose to report on are two very
different things.




Yes, that's what editors do. D'oh. I used to do that, eons ago. For a
while at the KC Star, my job as assistant to the world news editor, was
to tear copy off the various incoming wire machines, and prep it for the
world news editor to present at the three-times-nightly editorial budget
meeting. At those meetings, each department learned of its news hole for
the edition coming up, and would offer up what it thought was the best
news stories to fill that hole. There was a brief discussion and usually
consensus on what was "news" and therefore what was to be published. When
I filled in for the world news editor, I did the presentations and was on
occasion overruled by the Managing Editor. That's how the news biz works,
fella.

Most of the incoming news never made the paper, because there wasn't room
for it.


Isn't a UN resolution condemning Syria's role in the assassination of
Hariri more important than reporting on Chuckie Shumer's personal opinion
of Sam Alito?


Chuckie Shumer is the John McCain of the left. Don't get between Chuckie and
a microphone because you may end up in the hospital emergency room.