If The Times insists on inserting editorial comments, how is this different from other news sources headlining "Memos Spell Out Necessary C.I.A. Modes of Interrogation"?
Take the Boston Gazette, from whose pages we freely adapt a number of news items, and into which we insert letters, editorials, and advertisements of our own devising.
Microsoft Word's keyboard shortcut for inserting an editorial comment into a document under review (Control-Alt-M in the Windows version or Command-Option-A for the Mac edition) does take three keys to execute, but you can reassign the command to fewer (or a more comfortable combination of) keys.
Re "Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name)," by Brent Staples (Editorial Observer, July 13): As a university professor who assigns a term paper to my students, I found the article to have a rather negative tone.
We inserted clauses guaranteeing our editorial independence".
Or Skimlinks, which hopes to provide a viable revenue stream for online publishers by inserting affiliate ads in editorial content.
Deutchman: That was my biggest challenge, allowing the footage to just completely stand on its own, and inserting some kind of editorial commentary on what was happening.
Re "Concealed Weapons Against the Environment," by Robert B. Semple Jr. (Annotation, editorial page, July 31): Inserting anti-environment riders on unrelated bills is a flagrant corruption of the mechanisms of our government, but as we have seen time and time again, there is no abuse of the legislative process too egregious for the current Congress.
The parliamentary commission that approved the plan inserted a demand to preserve "the editorial identity of the individual newsrooms".The plan's fiercest parliamentary critics have been the representatives of Silvio Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia.
There was a clear delineation, he said, between "our ads on the outside pages" of the insert and "the inside foldout, which is all editorial content from Rolling Stone".
