“The great challenge was to edit those things as short as they could be and still have them make sense”. Great acclaim came to the editor who could artfully reduce wire stories to their absolute essence. One favorite K-heds, which ran in the Times in the 1950s, read in its entirety: Most snails are both male and female, according to the Associated Press.

the art of boiling a text down to its essence is being lost in the infinite room the internet affords

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