Neglected Articles

Whatever programme a newspaper may have, it is almost always so extensive that it can only be incompletely realised. Much important mater must be left out, to save space or time—and because of negligence. For even if the lack of space is a hindrance, many articles are printed only because they have been written: to try to fully meet the demand for consistency is too much for the editor's nerves. (Perhaps there are newspapers whose sole editing principle is to publish all the material at hand.) And let us be honest and admit that many good articles which fit in perfectly with the programme of the newspaper are written without the impetus of the editor.

In any case: if the reader is annoyed primarily by what is printed in the newspaper, the editor is generally annoyed by what is not printed in it. For example, if Pertti Etelapaa (the editor of the Turku Student Newspaper, in which this article was published. The Ed.) shortens this article, whose length defies all good rules of editing, then you will be annoyed, dear reader, by what he didn't cut, and I will be annoyed by what he did cut.

—Arvo Salo,

Helsinki.