From callers:
1. Drunk people will call you at any time of the day, and they want to talk for hours.
2. Mexicans don't recycle.
3. Long-time subscribers who swear three ways from Sunday that they read the paper cover to cover every single day, inevitably, will miss the three stories that repeated the information that was crucial to their lives.
3a. Because they didn't see the stories, that means I never wrote them.
4. If public officials take an action people don't like, they will swear it was done in secret, even though it was done at a public meeting. On fucking television.
5. If you remind people that all city council meetings are public and that they can speak at any of them because council sets aside time specifically to hear from the public, they will still say they never had the chance to speak their minds.
6. "Accounts payable" is not the same as debt. Does that mean "accounts receivable" is not the same as money owed?
From reading:
1. A foot in a buoyant athletic shoe could float as far as 1,000 miles on the ocean.
1 comment:
As I often say, if you've never answered the phone in a newsroom, then you've never really answered the phone.
Best phone call ever: What's the highest peak in the United States?
And they called the photography department of a newspaper for that.
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