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Monday, February 11, 2008

Why No National News?

By: Tom Faure at 8:46 am

I often wondered in earlier years at Spec why the paper doesn’t run any national news wire articles. National news, after all, is pretty important and easy to print if subscribed to wire services. Even if there were not enough space in the paper for all the news out there, in theory an editor could set the day’s agenda by choosing to run the 2 or 3 biggest national stories as of print time. The reason we avoid this has to do with our mission as a newspaper and our slightly different mission as a student organization.

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