tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250813038722859302.post8173562863701328322..comments2023-09-16T06:10:21.404-07:00Comments on Clanging Bell: The Boca Raton News: It Launched Me on a New Career PathClanging Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02049550374812770271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250813038722859302.post-86959568810315066732013-01-05T05:41:16.442-08:002013-01-05T05:41:16.442-08:00I still can't believe some of the stuff we use...I still can't believe some of the stuff we used to get away with. It was even more fun when we were an afternoon-only paper. The entire staff from newsroom to pressroom worked pretty much the same shift. When we had happy hour, the entire newspaper was represented.Clanging Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02049550374812770271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250813038722859302.post-16165941475760140282013-01-04T09:50:40.987-08:002013-01-04T09:50:40.987-08:00Newspapers of that size and time were fun. Once wh...Newspapers of that size and time were fun. Once when I was working in Bloomington and IU was looking for a football coach (which happened about every five or six years), we were sitting around speculating about candidates and the M.E. threw out the name Y.A. Tittle as a joke. Tittle had just retired as the Giants QB at the time. Well, it was a slow news day, as they say, so we actually got in touch with him to ask him. He was flattered, he said, but not really interested. We put a banner headline on the story at the top of the page. I couldn't imagine the Indy Star doing that. Another time, we used to have a football pick 'em panel and one of the guys went by a made-up name, Ollie Dart (Ollis T. on formal occasions) with a mug shot of a gorilla. Reproduction was so bad nobody really noticed. One time an irate reader showed up at the office demanding to see Ollie because of something he had written. We actually had him paged. Can't imagine any paper of any size doing that today. Journalism was more fun then.Paul Bordenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10303277445092967209noreply@blogger.com