As I was reading The New York Times today I came across a section where I found myself falling to the common reader's mentality that the book always talks about and we have also discussed multiple times in class. I was reading an article about the chairman of General Motors entitled, Chairman of G.M. Reportedly Quits In A Deal For Aid. When I got to the end of the writing on that page I became frustrated because the article continued on page B1. This simple thing made me mad because the article did not only continue on another page but in a whole different section of the newspaper. I never before had found myself really frustrated with an article, but for some reason this got to me.
After realizing that I had just acted in this manner, I sat back and thought about what it is like to be the reader of an article instead of the 'brains' behind it. I had to laugh because we have talked many times about how readers like their articles to be short and to the point, how they don't like to be inconvenienced. That is the best word to use in order to express how i felt, it was an inconvenience. I continued to read the article but now had a different mind-set as a writer because of that experience.
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