Missing the Newsroom

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Love Affair

“I thought about that room, as it had been at the moment I had walked into it with my story in my hand. All that sound, all that excitement, the motion, the raised voices, the clatter, the sense of something being put together on the fly.

I had never seen anything like it.

I was in love.

I had to be there.”

—Bob Greene, columnist and author,
recalling his first visit to a newspaper newsroom at 17,
in his memoir Late Edition: A Love Story, 2009
(Thanks to alert WORDster Janet Keefer)

Editor’s Note: Just like blogging in yer jammies with the dog farting in her sleep nearby.

Further Reading: NPR’s Scott Simon talks to Greene
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