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me nooa oi cuppings nas neen immensely gratifying. The writing art, as it is practiced in American newspapers and magazines, is neither dead nor dying. Yes, some papers are poorly edited; and, yes, some reporters have a terrible time with grammar, syntax and spelling, but there are plenty of good writers out there.
This was how Robert D. McFadden of The New York Times began a weather story;
“After six weeks of languorous winter, the first big snowstorm of the season roared across the Northeast with a vengeance Saturday, obliterating the region under accumulations 6 to 16 inches deep and turning the day into a hardship for some and a magical adventure for others.
“As if making up for lost time, the storm — a comma-shaped Northeaster, 300 miles across — barreled up the Atlantic seaboard and transformed landscapes from Virginia to Massachusetts. It disrupted air, rail and highway travel, knocked out power to thousands, closed business
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