《新疆新闻界》今年第2期开辟《在二三线》专栏,笔者认为这个专栏设得好。正如编者按中说的,通联、校对、资料、排印、后勤等二三线的同志长年累月默默无闻的工作,为保证新闻报道任务的完成,起了不可或缺的作用。在新闻单位工作的同志都知道,二三线的同志确很辛苦。就拿通联部门来说,既要登记和分发稿件,又要建立和管理通讯网,联系通讯员工作真够繁忙的。由于事情繁杂,也就可能会出现顾此失彼的现象。譬如,有的新闻单位采用了通讯员的来稿,除汇去一笔稿费外,既不寄剪报,又不在“汇款人简短附言”栏中通知在某日用了通讯员的某篇稿 The “Xinjiang Press” opened the “second and third tier” columns in the second phase of this year. I think this column is well set. As the editors said in the press, the second and third-line comrades of the Federation of Communica- tions, Proofreading, Materials, Typographical and Logistics, which have been unknown for many years, have played an indispensable role in ensuring the completion of the task of news reports. All the comrades working in the media units know that comrades in the second and third tier are indeed very hardworking. Take the communications department, it is necessary to register and distribute manuscripts, but also to establish and manage communications network, contact correspondent work really busy. Due to the complicated nature of the situation, there may also be a tendency to ignore this phenomenon. For example, some press agencies use correspondents’ manuscripts. In addition to paying a sum of manuscript fee, they do not send newspaper cuttings nor do they notify a certain manuscript