Talk:NASA releases first topographical map of Mercury

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There are two problems with that sentence, stylistically: It's in passive voice, which isn't a sin in itself but tends to interfere with news writing; its grammatical function is to allow omission of the subject, which is generally bad in news writing where the subject is likely to be important information, and it also produces less forceful text. And it's asserting a state of mind as an objective fact, whereas subjective stuff like that should be attributed (e.g. so-and-so of NASA said, etc.). --Pi zero (talk) 13:51, 9 May 2016 (UTC)