Sweet Old Bob recalled
There are nights on the shop floor at the paragraph factory when Bob Johnson, my first news editor, spontaneously comes to mind.
Tonight I recollected an evening when he was waiting at the news desk for a much-promised and long-delayed local story and observed pleasantly:
Goddamn city desk! If they’d written the Bible, you wouldn't be able to fit it in a boxcar—and it wouldn’t be done yet.
Comments
my kind of boss.
Posted by: Frank Sanger | August 27, 2011 8:52 PM
Another Bobism, after having been promised a great story at a budget meeting: "I don't buy on spec!"
Posted by: John Bryan | August 27, 2011 9:38 PM
Does the copy desk still get blamed for the paper being late when the desk doesn't get the copy until seconds before deadline?
Posted by: Wayne C. | August 28, 2011 3:58 AM