6 ms·
If I ran a newspaper, I'd have both articles already written, so I could hit the press as soon as the result was confirmed...
by qwph 18y ago
If I ran a newspaper, I'd have both articles already written, so I could hit the press as soon as the result was confirmed...
- mattmaroon 18y agoI promise you that everyone who actually does write a newspaper already does. They do that with sports or just about anything that runs late at night but needs to be printed early.
- mixmax 18y agoAnd don't forget obituaries. Usually the job of interns is to write obituaries so that they're ready when someone unexpectedly dies.
- wensing 18y agoUnless it's Fidel Castro. I work at a newspaper in South Florida. His (incomplete) obituary is very long and has not been written by an intern.
- foobar2k 18y agoYou may have seen an example of this happening recently when Bloomberg killed off Steve Jobs: http://gawker.com/5042795/bloomberg-runs-steve-jobs-obituary http://gawker.com/5042795/bloomberg-runs-steve-jobs-obituary
- commiebob 18y ago"dewey defeats truman!"