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Pronoun changes are indicated by brackets. e.g. [ new word ] to gender neutral: [?] examine accuracy
What happens to a [person] who wishes to be informed and
receives a great deal of news each day? First, straight news re-
porting never gives [a person] anything but factual [?] details of
the events of the day is always only a part, for news can never
deal with the whole. Theoretically, the reporter could relate these
details to other details, put them into context and even provide certain
interpretations— but that would no longer be pure information.
Besides, this could be done only for the most important event*,
whereas most news items deal with less important matters. But
if you shower the public with the thousands of items that occur
in the course of a day or week, the average person, even if [a person]
tries hard, will simply retain thousands of items which mean
nothing [and] would need a remarkable memory to tie some
event to another that happened three weeks or three months ago
Moreover, the array of categories is bewildering — economics,
politics, geography, and so on — and topics and categories change
every day.
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