报纸时间性强,篇幅有限,天天与广大读者见面,要求很快地反映现实生活,有效地引导社会舆论,因而,不仅新闻要短,社论也要写得短些,精粹些。社论短,可节省报纸的篇幅;短,可节省读者的时间;短,就要求作者说最要紧的话,可以避免有些重要的、新鲜的、精彩的思想观点被淹没在人所共知的道理之中。今年1月20日,人民日报发表题为《坚决制止损害全局 Due to the timeliness and limited space, the newspaper meets daily with readers. It demands that the real life be reflected quickly and the public opinion be effectively guided. Therefore, not only the news should be short, but the editorials should be shorter and more precise. Short editorials can save the length of the newspaper; short, save readers time; short, requires the author to say the most important words, to avoid some important, fresh, wonderful ideas are submerged in the well-known truth in. January 20 this year, People’s Daily published a report entitled “resolutely stop the detriment of the overall situation.”