ABSTRACT
All twenty-six newspapers submitted articles. For twenty-one of the twenty-six, the editor or his or her designee (often the newspaper's environmental reporter or its librarian) selected the articles for the archive. The articles were not picked by the project, nor were they chosen as bad examples. Five newspapers, rather than choosing articles themselves, invited the project to select articles on pollution, hazardous waste, the environment, etc. from their morgues. In these cases, to assure neutrality, project researchers photocopied many articles and then selected the five longest articles for the archive. The assumption was that the longest articles were likeliest to be the best.
