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Originally Posted by corporatejay
A friend who works in the media industry claims that the Sun's writers are instructed to write as if their readers could only read at a grade 10 level. Not sure if this was true, but it wouldn't surprise me. I get that they have a demographic, it's just not me.
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Most newspapers have an informal grade level (not put down in any publication style guide, but informally known by writers); it's an important thing for every journalist to know what the grade level the voice of their paper is. That said, from what I remember from journalism school, a grade 10 level is closer to what the Globe & Mail was at that point, while the Herald was about grade 8, and the Sun was about grade 6.