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SuperESL Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Dateline and peg

"On September 3 of this year, an alarming headline ran across six columns of the “World” section of The Times of London: “US Suspends Police Training After Big Rise in Green-on-Blue Attacks.” The dateline was Afghanistan and the peg was that forty-five coalition troops had been killed by Afghan soldiers and police already this year, compared with thirty-five for all of 2011. The number has since risen to fifty-one and joint US–Afghan patrols have been canceled."

What do dateline and peg mean here? Are these usages common?

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SuperESL What do dateline and peg mean here? Are these usages common? Yes.

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  • SuperESL What do dateline and peg mean here?
  • Are these usages common?
  • Yes.
  • The dateline is the little bit of info at the top of a newspaper article indicating the place of origin and the name of the news agency.
  • a news story that forms the basis of or justification for a feature story, editorial, political cartoon, or the like.
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SuperESLWhat do dateline and peg mean here? Are these usages common?
Yes. The dateline is the little bit of info at the top of a newspaper article indicating the place of origin and the name of the news agency.

The peg is (I think) the gist of the news article....Yes, I just found this:

news peg

1.a news story that
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