The 46-inch nightmare

Well Ace, you lost there, but maybe you won't lose with the Plain Dealer.

I hear there might be an opening there soon.

 

Oh ... though the thread was about Little Hondo.

 

It better not be for home delivery transporter again.

 

The 46 inch nightmare?

Okay who told you my girlfriend's nickname for me?

 

When it rains, etc...

 

I thought it was about the giant Asian dong. My retinas are scarred for life.

 

We are about to go 46 too, yet I'm not sure when our switch is coming. We currently have 8 on 6 agate style. Most papers have been 7 on 6 for a while and we are probably going to follow suit, so it shouldn't be a big issue for us.
What I hate about going 46 is that we are already getting squeezed for space regularly and I know they aren't planning on adding pages.

 

Idea is to save money, Man. Not spend it.

 

I've seen a few papers do the following on Sunday golf to save space. The problem is it takes even more time to go through and delete what you need to.

Any way:

278 (10-under), $248,365
Jack Nicklaus.........70-69-71-68
Arnold Palmer.........73-66-70-69
Lee Trevino............69-72-64-73
etc.

 

That's pretty damn funny. Good Job.

 

I think that's the best way to handle final-day golf agate in the 9- to 10-pica column width.

As far as it being time-consuming, I don't generally accept that from an agate editor. Unless the agate guy is doing three other things that night, I really think he/she has time to do some detail work on copy. And if they're just grabbing the wire material and throwing it on the page without giving some thought to formatting/presentation, they're not doing their job.

And if an SE has their agate guy doing three other things in the course of a night, he/she is not giving agate-page editing the emphasis it deserves.

 

Nobody has made a dick joke in a while.
I weep for my country.