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   RadicalCartoons (radicalcartoons@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2026 19:53:36 JST RadicalCartoons
   2 examples of how a newspaper sub-editor makes their comments.
   1) The Times, the story about Lucy Letby's alleged extra cases dropped, placed next to a pic of Kate Middleton cheering.
   2) The Telegraph, A story about the Green's pronoun madness, placed next to a pic of a woman in a totally different story.
   
   When you see stuff like this, it's not accidental. Subs do this as a comment on stories.
   
   You only notice this in the rl print editions, because online newspaper websites show you only the story you've searched for or what the algorithm feeds you.
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     RadicalCartoons (radicalcartoons@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2026 19:53:35 JST RadicalCartoons

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     • BILLSan345
     @BILLSan345 I was a freelance journalist, hung around a lot of journos and sub-editors. This is common practice.
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     BILLSan345 (billsan345@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 25-Jan-2026 19:53:36 JST BILLSan345

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     @RadicalCartoons Never noticed it. Good observation and analysis from you for this practice. Makes the word ‘subversive’ too appropriate when divided into its constituent parts.
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