Newspapers uncut

Lovely idea from City Comforts in response to some umbrage taken by Lance Knobel.

Considering the effectively unlimited storage capacity afforded by servers, mainstream media could publish far more letters as well as, of course, its own unused copy. For example, a reporter may write a good 2000 words. But solely for reasons constraints of the printed edition, the article is edited to 500 words. Why not publish the whole thing as an part of an expanded edition of the “paper?” Its “outtakes.”