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Ah, for the days when newspapers were assembled with hot linotype and careful calculation of headline sizes.

Nowadays, it's all done by fancyass computers, so there's no need to do mockups anymore.



Screenshot by some equally appreciative now-or-former editor type before tampabay.com woke up and took it down


We used to post shit like this in the composing room with a perfectly compugraphicked hed like "Typical New York Times paste-up job."



(Thanks to whatever friend of [livejournal.com profile] snowy_owlet linked to the [livejournal.com profile] cranky_editors comm).

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For those keeping score at home: we need to give the freaky, etc. dog a bath. We cannot do this until it stops raining, even though the bath will make her as freaky as the rain does. My hope is to be on road by 2 and at destination by 5:30.
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