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Letter From the Editor: Two ‘Thumbsuckers’ Worth Reading

By Dan Flynn on February 16, 2014

Journalists have long used the term “thumbsucker” to describe a piece that was usually fairly long and obvious yet still pulled together some story that was worth telling but didn’t have to be told today. “Schedule that thumbsucker from Davis to top the B section on Sunday,” I was ordered…
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