Journalism class does the time warp

In keeping with the "turn back the clock" theme, advertisers bought ads in the edition. Also, after it was printed, actual readers actually picked up the actual newspaper and actually read it.

 

They did it for one issue, rpmmutant. What's the gripe? Would you call a trip to a museum a waste of time? This was interactive history. One issue. Done.

Pretty cool, I think.

 

Not really a gripe. It's like learning how to develop film. It's a fruitless endeavor, even though it's a cool process.

 

Eh. I think there are hidden fruits in all labor, but especially such as this. Agree to disagree.

 

When the Interwebz gets turned off and newspapers become, well, newspapers again, those kids will have a leg up and know not to stick their fingertips in the hot wax roller.

 

I hated those things. had to may cuts on my fingers. I'll take the computer. Kind of a neat idea though.

 

Rubber cement? We used wax at my college paper and the two weeklies where I worked.
The second weekly switched to full pagination in the late 1990s. I'm sure the first weekly did to at some point, but it's a few states away and I haven't been in that newsroom for more than a decade.
But I digress.
Again, rubber cement?

 

I hope a college radio station does this....wax trax and reel-to-reel with zebra tape!!

 

Worked at a paper like that about six years ago. It definitely was an experience.

They finally got InDesign just before I left.

 

Makes me think all the waxers went the way of the buggy whip. Good riddance.

I question technology as much as anyone, but between pagination and paste-up, there's no comparison. Especially on deadline, slicing and dicing to update the standings ...

 

While most of it's just a cool little history exercise, the typewriter work and hand-done copy editing might give them some practical stuff. Lack of spellcheck teaches you discipline (and at least the errors you make aren't of the facepalm stupid 'Damn you, autocorrect!' variety).