"I'm here to say, 'no, to NATO,' so that Canada can maintain its peaceful reputation," said Janet Hawksley.I understand that your typically underthought, underwritten Canadian Press article (which, by the way, will probably make it into 80% of Canada's daily print media market one way or another) needs to show itself to be "fair and balanced" by - in this case - bringing in the protesters' perspective.
Ms. Hawksley, 86, said she attends every anti-war protest she can, because "it's the only world we've got."
She said she wore a green leaf over her nose to protect herself naturally from the sun.
"I've got Irish skin," said Ms. Hawksley.
A green leaf over her nose? Irish skin? Did those two lines really deserve to make it into the paper?
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Aldous, you will take satisfaction (and schadenfreude?) from knowing that while the same CP article appeared in (just) two Ontario papers over the weekend, Ms. Hawksley and her colorful attire/dermis actually made it in to only one: the Toronto Star.
If I recall correctly, the CP Style Guide tells embryo journalists to incorporate as much human interest material as possible in a story. It paints a more rounded picture of events, and, clearly, can always be cut.
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