two days later,when the full cadre of desk editors convened to lay out and edit the wednesday paper,
pollitt returned to the newsroom to ergue for running his photos from the beating, which had happened friday night, four day earlier. At first, several editors dismissed the photos as irrelevant, not even news. After all, they argued,fights were common at college parties around ucf. Stuff happend, and the paper generelly covered campus crime only after it had been reported by other local news media outlets first. Previous editors, stuggling with staffing and deciding to allcate resources elsewhere, had stopped assigning reporters to the police beat and had even discontinued the largely stenographic practice of publishing the log of bare-bones incident reports the university was legally obligated to provide.no one in the community complained about the reduced crime coverage.