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Thefacts确切数字Newwordsandexpressionseditor[ed?t?]extreme[?kstri?m]statistics[st?t?st?ks]journalist[d???n?l?st]president[prez?d?nt]palace[p?l?s]publish[p?bl??]fax[f?ks]impatient[?mpe??nt]fire[fa??(r)]originally[?r?d??n?li]TextEditorsofnewspapersandmagazinesoftengotoextremestoprovidetheirreaderswithunimportantfactsandstatistics.Lastyearajournalisthadbeeninstructedbyawell-knownmagazinetowriteanarticleonthepresidentspalaceinanewAfricanrepublic.Whenthearticlearrived,theeditorreadthefirstsentenceandthenrefusedtopublishit.Thearticlebegan:Hundredsofstepsleadtothehighwallwhichsurroundsthepresidentspalace.’Theeditoratoncesentthejournalistatelegraminstructinghimtofindouttheexactnumberofstepsandtheheightofthewall.Thejournalistimmediatelysetouttoobtaintheseimportantfacts,buthetookalongtimetosendthem.Meanwhile,theeditorwasgettingimpatient,forthemagazinewoul1dsoongotopress.Hesentthejournalisttwourgenttelegrams,butreceivednoreply.Hesentyetanothertelegraminformingthejournalistthatifhedidnotreplysoonhewouldbefired.Whenthejournalistagainfailedtoreply,theeditorreluctantlypublishedthearticleasithadoriginallybeenwritten.Aweeklater,theeditoratlastreceivedatelegramfromthejournalist.Notonlyhadthepoormanbeenarrested,buthehadbeensenttoprisonaswell.However,hehadatlastbeenallowedtosendacableinwhichheinformedtheeditorthathehadbeenarrestedwhilecountingthe1,084stepsleadingtothe15-footwallwhichsurroundedthepresidentspalace.Editorsofnewspapersandmagazinesoftengotoextremestoprovidetheirreaderswithunimportantfactsandstatistics.报刊杂志的编辑常常为了向读者提供一些无关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。Lastyearajournalisthadbeeninstructedbyawell-knownmagazineto
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