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When I first started writing newspaper editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in November 1992, I learned that -30- (pronounced dash thirty dash ) was the journalist s code for letting an editor know where your copy ended. Most media historians believe the typesetting mark originated when news was filed by telegraph. Western Union s famous mid-19th-century 92 Code of numerical shorthand signals lists the meaning of -30- as: No more the end. I prefer the definition in Webster s Dictionary: A sign of completion. From 1992-1999, I wrote an estimated 300 bylined newspaper columns and nearly 1,000 unsigned editorials
The American media landscape has changed dramatically since I entered this industry as a 22-year-old idealist who truly believed the "pen is mightier than the sword." Because of my peacefully expressed reporting, opinions and speeches, my family has been punished and stigmatized, my reputation tarnished and my voice squelched.
-30- : An Ending, but Not the End - American Renaissance amren.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amren.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.