expunge, above-the-fold

The New York Times leads with the conflict and gives most of its above-the-fold space to a photo of a man screaming, trapped under the rubble of a bombed security compound and prison. The Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide news-box with the crisis and fronts a photo of the same bleeding man. An NYT analysis, also above the fold, is headlined, "With Strikes, Israel Reminds Foes It Has Teeth," and argues that the bombing is a way for Israel to expunge memories of the failed war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006. The L.A. Times also makes the Lebanese connection.



above-the-fold報紙折疊線上方 醒目處

expunge Hide phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
1 to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing:
His name has been expunged from the list of members.

2 to cause something to be forgotten:
She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory.