Pressed
“The
deadlines, good Lord. The deadlines are always pressing down. Always. They
press and they press and when you get to feel like you’re gonna die if they
squeeze you any tighter, they press some more. You got no choice but to pull
through on some lousy last second article on who wore what to which race,
’cause that’s livin.’
“Hell, that’s probably why they CALL us the press! Haha.”
“Hell, that’s probably why they CALL us the press! Haha.”
—The Coop Times, new video game of life in the newsroom, “Learn to Fear Deadlines in this Snarky Journalist Simulator,” KillScreenDaily.com, March 6, 2015
• Editorial Comment: That’ll get the kids lining up at J schools, all right.
• Related: “BREAKING: Some evil genius made a video game that simulates writing the news on deadline,” Washington Post
PeezPix by Ted Pease
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