They don't package news in ways that subliminally promote their own views, as so many others do.
"What's Outside Counts, Too: British Law Spurs Scrutiny of Excess Packaging" (news article, Dec. 26) highlights British law allowing citizens to sue companies for excess packaging.
His expertise was less technical than intuitive, with a mad scientist's touch for curating and packaging news that made it especially clickable.
In effect, it is a digital incarnation of The Independent's sister title, i, which has built an audience by packaging news in a brief, readable format.
They packaged news programs like entertainment shows, with music (either dramatic or sentimental) and feel-good end pieces that allowed the anchor to smile wistfully into the camera and bid the country good night.
The big idea is how Life and, by implication, all forms of popular journalism package news, but in the end the photographs, looked at one by one, speak for themselves.
Two years after the pay package news broke, Grasso remains defiant about keeping the money, and you begin to suspect he will outlast his critics.
Whether it's editing Joseph Stalin's executed allies out of his photos or Barack Obama cherry-picking friendly media to roll out carefully packaged news stories, leaders always want to control the message.
The New York Times's Web site now sends out e-mail headline packages or news alerts to more than 1.2 million subscribers, according to Martin A. Nisenholtz, chief executive of Times Company Digital, the company's new-media unit.
Increasingly, newspapers run packages, where news and background features - explanation, implications, case studies - are placed together in the newspaper.
