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To: LindyBill who wrote (98039)	2/1/2005 11:38:58 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794484

I think you've really gone 'round the bend this time. This is where the Post has placed the piece: "washingtonpost.com > World > Columnists > World Opinion." So they take this reporter and give him the job of reading a bunch of other sources and then producing an anthology for the reader in something they call a "roundup." ========== _____Recent Roundups_____ • Four Ways of Looking at Iraq's Elections (washingtonpost.com, Jan 27, 2005) • Target Iran: How Likely Is a U.S. First Strike? (washingtonpost.com, Jan 25, 2005) • Tsunami Wipes Darfur Off Priority List (washingtonpost.com, Jan 18, 2005) • Is the Arab World Stingy? (washingtonpost.com, Jan 11, 2005) • Is America Stingy? (washingtonpost.com, Jan 4, 2005) • World Opinion Archive ============= I very much appreciate reading news samples. Your thread is a news sample and you often post news samples done by bloggers and other media. Anthologies are great vehicles, IMO. I cannot understand your complaint when the Post does it. Maybe you wouldn't have reacted as you did if my clip had the "World Opinion Roundup" heading at the top. But it couldn't because the heading isn't in text format so the copy/paste didn't pick it up. This reporter posts a quote from Steyn and then starts the next paragraph with, "The more common view is," He is editorializing. No, he isn't. If you're a reporter and you interview twenty people on a subject or read twenty columns on a subject and three say "a" and seventeen say "b," you report the essence of "a" followed by a segue stating that the more common position was "b" followed by the essence of "b." Nothing editorial about that. Simply reporting that "b" was more popular in your sample than "a." Good grief.