Election Night Pizza

Sausage, green peppers and onions are the way to go with pizza.
That's the greatest triumvirate since Crassus, Pompey and Caesar.

 

Sorry, dude. I've done both and it's no contest. Sports writers work harder. Period, end of sentence. Metro has two election nights (primary and general) every two years. Maybe your stray hostage situation. Mostly, it's covering meetings and checking the police blotter.

Sports, on the other hand: Bowl weeks. Prep nights. College football nights. NFL Sundays. The week of a PGA Tour event in your town. Super Bowl weekend. The week you get an NCAA basketball regional in your town. A half-dozen special sections.

 

My experience with writers is that sports does put more time and effort into their beats, but, again, I'm talking about news desk vs. sports desk. They both get lots of work piled on them more often than not. They're both overworked and underappreciated, and they both assume the other side has it easier.

 

I agree with news desk working just as hard. Here's the difference:

News stories are almost always filed and edited *hours* before sports stories are in, most nights. Big difference when you're dealing with a lot of raw copy coming in after 10 p.m. and you've got to get all your pages out at 11.

 

Do you work in my shop?

 

That's supposed to be the case in news, Buckdub, but it usually doesn't happen that way. As a news desk supervisor, I just want to shoot down the idea that somehow the news desk doesn't put in as much time as the sports desk. I see the same effort (and also the occasional lack of effort) in news as I did when I was working sports.

But it also comes down to the individual. I'm almost always the last person in the office at the end of the night, whether I'm working news or sports.

 

Actually, that phrase might be the best comeback of all ... used correctly.

You see one of these newsies who wouldn't be caught dead working outside 9 to 5, saying something like that on election night. So you just look at him and say, "...do you work in my shop?"

They'll get the idea.

 

No, Emily, that's election night, not erection night. Election.

Oh ... That's very different ... Never mind.

 

I have the pleasure of designing our nation/world front tomorrow. Looks like I'll have a late night.

As far as pizza, we've already had our first two waves (one when the reporters left, one when the desk came in). We'll get wave 3 as midnight approaches.

And the folks who got to leave early today were the ones who ate up most of the first two pizza orders. Scavenges, all of them.

 

After those three Pizza Hut pepporoni pizzas, I'm ready for the election.

 

I have a question.
A couple posters have talked about having to lay out news pages tonight, does this mean you work in news or because of the election coverage you are helping out with news?

 

I'm laying out A1 tonight. I'm a news copy editor who still has a small role on the sports side.