It is the copy editor's third operation that is really interesting to the linguist. Selection leaves the form of accepted stories untouched. Cutting deletes matter, but does not otherwise change what remains. But alteration changes the actual language form of news accepted for broadcast. So while the object of much content analysis of news is what gets left out (e.g. Cutlip, 1954), the focus of this study is the fate of what is left in. Editing alterations serve two purposes. They reduce the amount of news copy even further, because editors delete individual words and phrases as well as the complete sentences rejected in cutting a story. The second purpose is stylistic. The linguistic form of copy originating both outside and inside the news organization must be made to conform to "house style". Most obviously, house style is codified in the "style book" which newspapers and broadcast stations issue to news- workers. However, such manuals tend to deal with only the most obvious points of style, and copy editors in any case rarely consult them. For broadcast news, editing is also intended to restyle written language to a form more suitable to be read aloud. Both radio newsworkers and the official style books lay great stress on the differences between "writing for the eye" and "writing for the ear