We had retired from active discussion after a couple satisfying day-end cocktails yesterday. Our spirits were fairly good, despite the larger chaos. Management had permitted one of our projects to lurch into print, and another appeared to be gyrating through one of the sundry processes required to adapt it to a new edition. These things […]

Management leaned on our Writer’s Section to concentrate on timely, topical, amusing SHORT topics the other day, since everything is so emotional and intense in this hyper-sonic season. Accuracy was the first casualty in the speed, so we are doing what we can. Earlier, we had tried to explore some of the war in the […]

You are living in the same cyclone of activity, so our usual morning blathering will be kept only to an observation of the raw power of the winds swirling and howling around us. We did not attempt to stay awake for the closing remarks at the Red-hued convention last night. The machinations of that process […]

What a darn week! The account has to begin with the attempted assassination and the maelstrom of messaging about it in all directions. Attempted murder on national television, bitter political strife and a variety of legal battles were all reflected in a swirl of highly amplified messages. Our Legal section saw the first draft of […]

The GOP convention is wrapped up in short order. We think they will adjourn today or tomorrow, but all the big news and messaging is already done. Candidate Trump is now the official nominee, and appeared bandaged with his running mate, the first Millennial and first former enlisted Marine to be on a major ticket. […]

Both Legal and Marketing had sent representatives who were waiting while we finished posting the astonishing morning blather that had superseded the plan to make a significant announcement. Then we got snagged on another development further down the list of Big Things (BTs).\ So, that trumped what we were in the middle of as the […]

We were a little startled by the news, and perhaps you were as well. The tempo of things since …what are we calling it? The messaging varied at first. “Incident” and “Event” were first, though it transitioned to something of general agreement as an “attempted assassination.” You know how our collective recollections start like that […]

It was a decent night’s sleep, according to reports from across the nation and as far away as Australia. We did not know how it was going to go as our last act of the day was to attempt to absorb the address from the Oval Office about the assassination attempt that has roiled us […]

We were surprised to discover we had slept pretty well after a startling disruption to the evening. We had stayed up late attempting to process the news. We had been working on a draft for a story to be run to bridge the messaging of the NATO Summit week to the rising torrent of reporting […]

This is the product of a fun outing after the Production Meeting yesterday. You are aware of the developments in the Campaign, and they have been spectacular. One columnist attempted to draw a parallel to the media treatment of other world leaders. That special treatment was deemed necessary to maintaining order and stability. The trajectory […]