Misspelled Words Versus Vertical Newspaper Columns
This rant pits misspelled words against neurotically vertical newspaper columns. It deals with a highly attended school board meeting in Silver City New Mexico. Police and the town fire marshal were asked to attend for security and capacity concerns in the event of a fire.
The criticisms levied by the attendees were rather vague, only citing a failure of leadership in the school district at the very highest level. Justin Wecks stated that teachers, staff, and even administrators live in fear of retaliation, but nothing specific was stated in this RDR article as to why many employees have been put on administrative leave for alleged disruptive actions.
OK, now for the mild rant related to this Regional Roundup article. At issue is the necessity for column type articles to have each sentence end in the same position on the page even at the cost of misspelling words. Examples are failure being spelled as the "two words" fail and ure. The same for contract being spelled at con followed by a blank and tract.
Look at the picture of this article found in the Roswell Daily Record where words are intentionally misspelled in order to end each line in the column in the exact same last position! Their are multiple instances of words being misspelled apparently in order to make the column look prettier.
I don't know if the printers of the RDR did this or they just printed what they received from another source.
The criticisms levied by the attendees were rather vague, only citing a failure of leadership in the school district at the very highest level. Justin Wecks stated that teachers, staff, and even administrators live in fear of retaliation, but nothing specific was stated in this RDR article as to why many employees have been put on administrative leave for alleged disruptive actions.
OK, now for the mild rant related to this Regional Roundup article. At issue is the necessity for column type articles to have each sentence end in the same position on the page even at the cost of misspelling words. Examples are failure being spelled as the "two words" fail and ure. The same for contract being spelled at con followed by a blank and tract.
Look at the picture of this article found in the Roswell Daily Record where words are intentionally misspelled in order to end each line in the column in the exact same last position! Their are multiple instances of words being misspelled apparently in order to make the column look prettier.
I don't know if the printers of the RDR did this or they just printed what they received from another source.
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