From this week's Full Court Press: A draft policy now circulating at the New York Times proposes to end one of newspapers' oldest traditions: telling the reader when the reporter filed the story he or she is reading. "We'll still call them datelines, but they will now give only the name of the place, with no date," a Times memo explains. The "significant advantages" include doing "away with datelines that are several days old, which can make a story seem stale rather than immediate." Bottom line: another case where less is really less.
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