"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.
Maybe at your paper, but certainly NOT at The Kansas City Star, where I
worked as a reporter and copy editor. Nothing was cut in the composing
room without an editor standing there reading the type upside down and
deciding what to cut, if cuts were needed. Most cuts, though were made
on page proofs.
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More deception from the left and the useless MSM.
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