End-of-the-Week Ruminations: "Trying"/"Trying"

       Re the title of yesterday's post, I started without the bracketed "It's," added it later.

       Yes, often news stories have a background, complications, reversals, saying "no" to something that went before, and we have to keep attempting ("trying") to understand the various stages of contradiction that went into TODAY'S News.  (Already that story is outdated as a new state law went into effect January 1st allowing licenses for illegal immigrants.)

       "Try" (verb) comes from Old French [trier], to "sort," "pick out," "sift," what a reporter and editor do and we need to follow in order to understand.  And that sorting and that following can be "trying" (adjective) for reporters and readers, "severely straining the power of endurance" (Merriam-Webster).

       Both meanings can apply here.