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Punctuation Exercises

When television news started in the 1950s, it occupied less than 30 minutes and networks covered national and world news in 15-20 minutes with few advertisements. Now local news often lasts 90 minutes and the document examines what was truly news versus not news during a 1 hour local broadcast on St. Patrick's Day in 1998.

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Punctuation Exercises

When television news started in the 1950s, it occupied less than 30 minutes and networks covered national and world news in 15-20 minutes with few advertisements. Now local news often lasts 90 minutes and the document examines what was truly news versus not news during a 1 hour local broadcast on St. Patrick's Day in 1998.

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When television news started out 

back in the 1950s it occupied less than a thirty-minute slot.


Ten or fifteen minutes would be granted to local stations for their news and then the networks
would say all there was to say about national and world news in the remaining fifteen to
twenty minutes. There were very few advertisements during the news; it wasn't regarded as
appropriate to sponsor news about floods and fires and political disasters. Life must have been
simpler then.

Nowadays many television stations set apart ninety minutes for local news alone and that's
just for the early evening news show. On March 17 1998 (St. Patrick's Day), we watched a local
news show in Hartford for one hour from 5 to 6 p.m. and kept track of what seemed to be
really news and what was -- well not news.

There once was a time when a huge and scary

monster lived in the mountains everyone threw apples

pears strawberries and bananas at the creature it roared

growled spat and groaned but still it did not go away suddenly a

knight appeared wearing bright shining armour and told him to get lost in the end the monster
packed up and left for Bolivia

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