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/ After two or three weeks of this        \
| madness, you begin to feel As One with  |
| the man who said, "No news is good      |
| news." In twenty-eight papers, only the |
| rarest kind of luck will turn up more   |
| than two or three articles of any       |
| interest... but even then the interest  |
| items are usually buried deep around    |
| paragraph 16 on the jump (or "Cont. on  |
| ...") page...                           |
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| The Post will have a story about Muskie |
| making a speech in Iowa. The Star will  |
| say the same thing, and the Journal     |
| will say nothing at all. But the Times  |
| might have enough room on the jump page |
| to include a line or so that says       |
| something like: "When he finished his   |
| speech, Muskie burst into tears and     |
| seized his campaign manager by the side |
| of the neck. They grappled briefly, but |
| the struggle was kicked apart by an     |
| oriental woman who seemed to be in      |
| control."                               |
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| Now that's good journalism. Totally     |
| objective; very active and straight to  |
| the point.                              |
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| -- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and        |
\ Loathing '72"                           /
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