Bus plunge story
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bus-plunge-story-164-7293944
title:
Bus plunge story
text:
Bus plunge stories are a nickname for a journalistic practice of reporting bus accidents in short articles that describe the vehicle as "plunging" from a bridge or hillside road. The phenomenon has been noted in The New York Times, which published many bus plunge stories from the 1950s through the 1980s, running about 20 such articles in 1968 alone. Commentators on the "bus plunge" phenomenon have suggested that such reports were printed not because they were considered particularly newsworthy,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Filler story in print journalism
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_plunge_story
date created:
2005-06-08T07:06:56Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T02:19:03Z
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