Let's try this again: Hey AP!

spnited · Jan 8, 2007

Seriously, it's the fucking nobody gives a shit bowl between two nobody gives a shit teams. Why would you need more than a few grafs unless you're in Mississippi or Ohio?

DyePack · Jan 8, 2007

linotype said:

shotglass said:

OK, you've got a 28-7 game. You are the AP writer, so it must be explained at some point that you're ALWAYS on somebody's deadline. Why would you move 5 inches 10 minutes after the game, a 28-7 game? Wouldn't you have enough in your laptop to give us, say, 12 inches and let us get the page out?
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I posed a similar question to the AP guy in my state. Here's what he said:

They're firing out 3-4 graf stories at the final buzzer to get the Internet covered and to fill the needs of those members who want nothing more than a capsule.

Many times, he said, he has the entire story written by the final horn, but the desk in NY wants the first 4 grafs first because it takes less time to read-and-ship a 4-inch story and then read the rest of the story, than it does to read the entire 500-word story and ship it in one take.
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Complete nonsensical bullshit that makes sense only to AP.

Are we to believe AP has one guy frantically running around editing everything? There's no reason why the 4-inch story and the 12-inch story can't be sent back-to-back and edited back-to-back. Of course the 4-incher would be done first, but then the 12-incher would be right behind it.

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