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Book III
Lesson 5
The facts
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Editors of newspapers and magazines
often go to extremes to provide their readers
with unimportant facts and statistics.
Last year a journalist had been instructed
by a well-known magazine to write an article
on the president＇s palace in a new African republic.
When the article arrived,
the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it.
The article began:
＇Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president＇s palace.＇
The editor at oncesent the journalist a fax instructing him
to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts,
but he took a long time to send them.
Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient,
for the magazine would soon go to press.
He sent the journalist two urgent telegrams,
but received no reply.
He sent yet another telegram informing the journalist
that if he did not reply soon he would be fired.
When the journalist again failed to reply,
the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written.
A week later, the editor at last received a telegram from the journalist.
Not only had the poor man been arrested,
but he had been sent to prison as well.
However,
he had at last been allowed to send a cable in which he informed
the editor that he had been arrested while counting
the 1084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall
which surrounded the president＇s palace.