Instead of drawing readers in, the editor-in-chief, Will Findlater, said there were concerns that cover girls were making readers feel awkward and alienating potential buyers.
Instead of helping readers to see how the Middle East is evolving, Ms. Wright offers a set of portraits of failed efforts.
Would you consider, instead of inviting readers to write captions for cartoons, challenging cartoonists to draw to submitted captions?
Instead of inundating readers with trial maneuvers, Mr. Guinn homes in on the tight suspense and drama of the trial, not to mention the bits of inadvertent comedy.
Perhaps instead of telling readers that Mr. Petrakis was opening his refrigerator, we could have told them that he has trouble filling it.
Instead of telling readers what they could already see, we could have tried for a bigger point — for example, did the suspects take this picture themselves?
So instead of asking readers to make the imaginative leap into the other country that is the past, the paper has changed them, updated them, distorted them.
It had just as surprising a vibe, though instead of Sartre readers, I found a woman knitting (after midnight!), a guy dancing by himself, facial hair galore and art covering the walls.
Instead of giving readers what we'd most expect — a scene at an awards ceremony, say, or a character overdosing in a hot tub — Sneed offers details about the film industry and fame mainly as background.
"And the question is: where's the science?" New York City's current balanced literacy curriculum uses books from classroom libraries instead of basic readers and encourages students to read and write on their own level.
