That was something we managed not to do in our tenure. No damned sex columns. Mainly because the groups of "who can write" versus "who's getting any" had very few people in common (and when they intersected, lives were usually destroyed)....
I think one of the best things about being in the newsroom is getting to see the absolute crap that doesn't make it into the paper, like a columnist trying to make a squirrels-to-people dialog-parallel with 9/11 (idiotic, offensive, and just pointless), or plagiarising Dave Barry columns, or missmiah's icon above -- an excerpt from a charming little passage about a group rape, believe it or not, written by a sworn enemy of the English language and, really, all decency....
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Date: 2006-09-02 04:25 pm (UTC)I think one of the best things about being in the newsroom is getting to see the absolute crap that doesn't make it into the paper, like a columnist trying to make a squirrels-to-people dialog-parallel with 9/11 (idiotic, offensive, and just pointless), or plagiarising Dave Barry columns, or