Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Media Who Wants to Be a Journalist?
Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:40 AM
If you can't even throw a punch in the office in peace?
Washington Post editor Henry Allen, following news reports that he punched Style reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia on Friday night, told POLITICO that he was surprised by the huge reaction in the media world.In the old days, said the 68-year-old, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, the press wouldn't have been so shocked by an expletive-filled, newsroom scuffle...
"Back when I got into journalism, the idea that a fistfight in a newsroom would turn into a news story was unthinkable," Allen said when reached Monday evening. "The guys in the sports department at the New York Daily News, they had so many, you wouldn’t even look up."
The line that preceded the fists of fury: “This is total crap. It’s the second worst story I have seen in Style in 43 years.” (Followed by: "Henry, don’t be such a cocksucker.” Followed by a mad search for the first-worst Style story ever.)
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