The Times' newsroom set to ring with the sounds of typewriters once more

Pretty fun story.
Now if only to pump cigarette smoke through the ventilation and fetch the bottle of Evan Williams from the top drawer (next to the Pepto, next to the X-Acto knife).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/the-times-newsroom-set-to-ring-with-the-sounds-of-typewriters-once-more-9692335.html

 

What about the teletype machines and gruff old editors calling for a copyboy?

This is going to be a bust.

 

What is it about newspapers and useless ideas that just go together?

 

Easy target.
Anything dying or already obsolete will look ridiculous with passage of time.
Think about road maps and film developing centers, and try not to smile.

 

Side note: It's the Times of London.

 

Wink-wink to the posters here who swing from the ballsac of "the Times."

 

It's not even the dying or obsolecence. It's the stupidity that goes with it. Seriously, the business has a multitude of problems, yet, the highly-paid execs sit around their boardrooms and come up with a dumb idea such as pumping in volume of typewriters to motivate their staff?

 

As well as the proportion wheel and editors saying "cut it where it falls" when stories are too long.

 

Still have my pica pole. Makes a good back-scratcher.

 

And the drawer full of velox headshots.

 

That's funny. We decided a few years ago to cut our all-county basketball team from 10 to 5. This one coach was really upset about it. I told him years ago (before I got here) that all-county was five. He said no way. So I dug into the drawer and found an all-county pic from 1992. There were five players in the picture. He was one of them.

 

I downloaded the Hanx Writer app mentioned in the story. It's kinda fun. I might use it next time I need to type something. Hopefully it's not full of bugs and crashes.