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To: dinodino

Yes, one can cipher out the location, and in this case it’s not too difficult to do so. But it still baffles me that in The Year of Our Lord 2018, near the end of the second decade of the 21st century and a generation after Al Gore invented the internet, that so many publications do not identify their location with a banner or informational box on every story and webpage. A lot of the print media, even publications that are oriented to an online presence, make themselves unnecessarily obscure. If they’re that stupid, they deserve to die.


24 posted on 09/19/2018 10:12:43 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Uh, as I pointed out to the other poster, if you had read the article, you would have seen the author’s info right there. The only way one could avoid knowing that this was from Madison, WI would be if one didn’t read the article at all.


30 posted on 09/19/2018 10:19:02 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: sphinx; dragnet2; flaglady47; oswegodeee; chigirl
Agree with both of you. One of my pet peeves is that at least one or two of the five journalistic W's are too frequently not listed at all in title or first paragraph.

(.....speaking as a newspaper Brenda Starr who labored back in the dinosaurian days of trained, fair journalism).

Leni

37 posted on 09/19/2018 11:36:22 AM PDT by MinuteGal ( MAGA ! ! !...MAGA ! ! ! ...MAGA ! ! !)
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