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 Post subject: Reagan heds
PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 9:44 am 
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Thanks, Bill, for providing the link to the "Newseum," and thus making it impossible for me to continue my boycott of it.<p>One of the more puzzling heds is Detroit's:<p>REAGAN DIES, BROUGHT
HOPE BACK TO AMERICA<p>It's curiously punctuated and seems more like a seven-word editorial.<p>My absolute favorite is Calgary's:<p>DID THE PUCK GO IN?<p>Also curious: Even though the demise was announced in plenty of time for papers to break their front pages, note that a bunch of them still went with whatever packages they had planned and shoehorned the death of a former president around it. A particularly egregious example of this is Culpeper.<p>In defense of the places that did this, my guess is they are so understaffed that they can't even make an attempt to play up a breaking news story once the page is "designed."


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 Post subject: Re: Reagan heds
PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:46 am 
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Yeah, Culpeper, if I'm not mistaken, has one copy editor/paginator, give or take one.


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 Post subject: Re: Reagan heds
PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:54 am 
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Check out the Erie Times-News.


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 Post subject: Re: Reagan heds
PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:06 am 
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We old-timers tend to forget, (until a fully adult intern shows up looking like someone your daughter might baby-sit), that many people now working were in elementary school when Reagan left office and, not having achieved 30 themselves, might not see much significance in the prospect of the first state funeral of a president in 30 years. If Saturday duty is left to the least senior editor, the odds of having someone downplaying the death are higher still.


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 Post subject: Re: Reagan heds
PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:38 am 
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That's why one reads history. In 1987, being the youngest on the desk at 27, I was expected to know about 1967 for just this reason.


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 Post subject: Re: Reagan heds
PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:13 pm 
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Too bad you missed 1967. It was a pisser of a good time.


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 Post subject: Re: Reagan heds
PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:21 pm 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer:
Too bad you missed 1967. It was a pisser of a good time.<hr></blockquote>Oh, yeah...


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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer:
Too bad you missed 1967. It was a pisser of a good time.<hr></blockquote><p>It's one of the reasons I think I was born 20 years after my time. The other being that I would have liked to have spent more years of my career using type guages and ballpoint pens rather than keyboards.


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