You'll never walk alone
For Auren.
I appreciated your entry today and I sympathise with your plight.
I spent hours researching to write an reasonably intelligent editorial as I'm laying down the paper for the second week in a row and what will be my final time before leaving.
Deadline for the paper is at 3; absolute deadline is 5. My publisher comes into the office and asks why I'm running a particular story on page one. I agree but it's been quiet lately. And part of laying down a paper has to do with the size of the editorial hole.
Well, I agree that we have to cut that story and it'll probably run next week. Now I have to fix up two pages and write another editorial cuz it was based on the story that is now not going to run. I went from being ahead of the game to being faced with one of the worst possible situations in a newsroom.
Did I mention that it's 3:30 at this point?
I got the third page - the editorial - done at the absolute latest dealine by 6. When I got home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. But I got the job done and nobody got hurt, most imortantly me.
Although I cannot echo your thoughts 100 per cent, I know how you are feeling. You will appreciate that I have no suggestions to offer and no advice to dispense.
As for moving back to Kamloops, if you wanna come back, I can look for a two bedroom.
John: "I bought a vineyard in the Napa Valley. I got tired of New York."
Carrie: "When you're tired you take a nappa--you don't move to Napa."
I appreciated your entry today and I sympathise with your plight.
I spent hours researching to write an reasonably intelligent editorial as I'm laying down the paper for the second week in a row and what will be my final time before leaving.
Deadline for the paper is at 3; absolute deadline is 5. My publisher comes into the office and asks why I'm running a particular story on page one. I agree but it's been quiet lately. And part of laying down a paper has to do with the size of the editorial hole.
Well, I agree that we have to cut that story and it'll probably run next week. Now I have to fix up two pages and write another editorial cuz it was based on the story that is now not going to run. I went from being ahead of the game to being faced with one of the worst possible situations in a newsroom.
Did I mention that it's 3:30 at this point?
I got the third page - the editorial - done at the absolute latest dealine by 6. When I got home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. But I got the job done and nobody got hurt, most imortantly me.
Although I cannot echo your thoughts 100 per cent, I know how you are feeling. You will appreciate that I have no suggestions to offer and no advice to dispense.
As for moving back to Kamloops, if you wanna come back, I can look for a two bedroom.
John: "I bought a vineyard in the Napa Valley. I got tired of New York."
Carrie: "When you're tired you take a nappa--you don't move to Napa."
posted by strunken wagnall @ 11:27 PM
3 Comments:
At 11:04 AM,
Anonymous said…
All I can say is...
Carrie: "You owe us a proper goodbye...and by us I mean me and New York"
At 2:30 PM,
Auren said…
Yeah, I don't envy you guys that actually have to work your asses off either - at this point it seems like what I want, but I'd probably hate that too. I'd give anything to write an editorial or face the pressure of a real news story.
I'd move back to Kamloops in a sec if there was any chance of a job.
At 4:19 PM,
Alain Saffel said…
Ahh, if only I could do layout with real news stories. What a novel concept.
I'd be a lot happier doing layout if I wasn't doing the ad design as well, and if I was writing the damn stories! I hate being stuck in front of the computer all the time.
What are you guys using for layout up there in Kitimat?
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