single in kind of the chief beefs o...

single in kind of the chief beefs of journalists everywhere, no matter the size or location of the paper where they are give employment toed is that they write and write and write and surpassingly rarely do they receive any input upon their stories, for good or ill.

All those hours of meticulous toil, of hand-crafting the consummate lead (the introductory paragraph of a story), of finding that extra source that inflects a good story into a fascinating one--all received according to a readership base that, for the most numerous part (and there are exceptions, of course) at no time let you know when you've done upright ...