Sunday postmortem

China is a large place and proved a lot of ground to cover during a four-day, holiday week.

I think people can tell when the balance of a story leaned more toward more its reporting or writing. More of the latter is best, but is bolstered and made effective by the latter.

Despite considerable reporting going into Sunday's story about Falun Gong, China and Pasadena, I was left with insufficient time for the actual writing, resulting in some marathon-length sentences that some rewrites would have weeded out.

But little space must have been available on the actual page because a considerable amount of the story was cut.

For example, several paragraphs pertaining to Mayor Bill Bogaard, who returned my anxiety-fortified messages Friday to speak about the issue from a beach he was visiting with his grandchildren.

And some other significant passages/context. I'll post the entirety here once I have access to it again.