The Lower case

Headlines editors probably wish they could take back

November 3, 2016
 

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In this week’s Lower Case…

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Wichita (Kan.) Eagle-Beacon 6/21/81

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The Montogomery Journal (Montgomery County. Md.) 8/8/84

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The Sun-Tattler (Broward County, Fla.) 1/25/84

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Adirondack Daily Enterprise (Saranac Lake, N.Y.) 1/17/85

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The Editors are the staffers of the Columbia Journalism Review.