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juliette14	Post subject: Re: to all the wire editors... Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:48 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 05, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 73 Location: "It's really not like the rest of Texas."	I get annoyed by stories that describe things most people know about prisons for the sole purpose of contrasting them with a rich person's life. When an Enron exec's wife went to jail last week, the story tried to do a bit of the same thing. I think it's a pointless, obvious, uncreative way to write.
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jjmoney62	Post subject: Re: to all the wire editors... Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:30 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	It was deemed not interesting enough to run in this afternoon's paper.
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Oeditpus Rex	Post subject: Re: to all the wire editors... Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:48 pm
Joined: Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 1324 Location: N 36° 57' 9", W 121° 24' 2"	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by JL Creighton: The queen of high-thread-count sheets will get military-style linens for her bunk bed. She will have to trade in her wardrobe for prison khaki jumpsuits. She could get stuck on kitchen detail — backbreaking work that pays about 12 cents an hour and requires inmates to be up before the crack of dawn. <hr></blockquote>I smell a prisoner-abuse story.
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Gatekeeper	Post subject: Re: to all the wire editors... Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:33 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 309 Location: Upper Midwest	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Blythe: I get annoyed by stories that describe things most people know about prisons for the sole purpose of contrasting them with a rich person's life.<hr></blockquote><p>Are these the same people who we're supposed to be able to communicate with at an 8th grade level? If that's the case, who's to say they know squat about prison life?<p>Gatekeeper<p>-30-
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Jackie	Post subject: Re: to all the wire editors... Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:37 am
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	I don't know about snide, but it sure had an air of the 1970s (as in "women's lifestyle pages" report) to it. I wonder at the kitchen work described as "backbreaking." It's not like they're chained together at the ankles and have to break rocks with a pickax. I shipped it off to the Biz editor, who will probably spike it.
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young_one	Post subject: Re: to all the wire editors... Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:25 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 67 Location: D.C.	I had that all set to run as a fill-the-page brief, and one of the higher-ups made me redo the page and basically turn the whole thing into a whole-page package with graphic.
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redpenman	Post subject: Re: to all the wire editors... Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:27 pm
Joined: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 65	I can see running it. Just for the fact that there are a lot of people that believe Stewart won't do any real time in the clink, rather she'd be getting pedicures and eating truffles.<p>That may still be true, but I didn't mind AP trying to show a glimpse of what she might be facing, IF.....
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