Sam Zell, owner of the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, has figured out that some reporters write more than others. He figures that he might as well fire the ones who write the least.
Logically this means favoring reporters who inflate their prose with filler phrases and who write stories that don’t require [...]
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Be wordy, and write about the obvious
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