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... "But while the Republican governor limited most of her proposed new spending to a few criminal justice initiatives, majority Democrats in the legislature say they want to do a few things Rell did not." That's an example of the word serving a useful purpose, rather than justifying some attitude the reader needs to hang onto. And I'd be willing to bet that it was way down in the story. If the newshole is small, they cut from the bottom. Newspaper reporters are taught to write their stories with the most important information early, and the filler afterwards in case of the very likely event that it needs to be shortened without harming the overall meaning. In the days of actual "paste up" this sort of chopping from the bottom to make things fit was usually done "on the fly" by the compositors pasting up the pages, not actual editors in the newsroom.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You must mean the "overall meaning" of leaving all the felony charges out, to make room for the account of how his wife must feel? Pfffftt.. =========================== Depends on what day you're referring to. If it's today's story, the correct assumption is that you've already seen all the information about felony charges since the story began. If you haven't, you should know where to find it. Also, the newspaper you've been ordered to dislike often puts related story links in a sidebar, so you can explore further. Example: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/ny...hp&oref=slogin |
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