"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.
Yeah, it was way down in the story. And, the articles by that paper's staff
writers are well done for the most part. They follow rule #1: Summarize the
story in the first paragraph so the reader can decide if it's something he
wants to continue reading.
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