It's the journalist's obligation to
avoid both the cerebral peaks and
rarified air of the literary commu nity and the substandard committee
writing of who-what-when-where
news, to apply "direct perceptions"
and "immediate intuitions" to
events, and to express those verdicts regularly in clear and cogent
prose. It's the editor's obligation
to have faith in that prose.
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