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By contrast, the contemporary New Yorker was churned out by “punctuation castratos who have gone to bed with commas for a quarter of a century.”
Project MUSE - What We Talk About; When We Talk About: The New Yorker
muse-jhu-edu.alumniproxy.library.upenn.edu
Scholars working with newsmakers in China, however, have shown how the moral-political and professional conceptions they are guided by have been formed in relation to their politically particular circumstances. The need to “do the Party’s propaganda work” is regarded, in China’s context, as an unavoidable condition of participation in the news industry. __The opportunity to produce informative reports on publicly important affairs is, meanwhile, recognized as something that only arises occasionally and only for newspapers with the ample financial resources, adequate political backing, and extensive networks that it takes to produce such reports.__ Many journalists in China thus think of their profession as a practice not simply of public truth-speaking, but of __strategically navigating the demands of various Party authorities to build up their newsmaking capacities__.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
USPS introduced self-adhesive stamps in the early 1990s, and by 2010, licking postage stamps was almost nonexistent (and not a moment too soon to guard against SF extortion plots!)
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
gwern.net
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