How newsrooms keep going

Frozen balls

They are fueled by pictures such as this AFP shot - the official favorite news photo of yesterday. By the end of my shift, there was a Photoshopped image going around with the head of one of our Tokyo editors on the flexible body.

Then I threatened to call John Ashcroft on my Old Farmers Almanac-reading managing editor, since he now potentially could be a threat to national security. (I’ve never had an urge to own one of them books until now.) Once the terrorists know the times of our sunrises and sunsets, we’re all toast.