My last gig at the LA Times before I got laid off in early 2001 was doing listings for the Calendar section. We had to get all of our work done for the weekend editions by Wednesday night because Thursday was all about typing in movie times as they were faxed in. There were so many movies in so many theaters it took two of us all day.
Before I got laid off I was a firm believer that newspapers would never go away because, who’s gonna wanna take their laptop into a bathroom stall to read the news…
We had an editorial staff of 200 and a giant printing facility to produce an Orange County edition of the Times.
Now they have one reporter/photographer working remotely to cover 3 million residents over 1,000 square miles.
The response of Patrick when JP said he might reconsider watching the Christian movie because of the voice cast was very funny. That being said, what a cast!
Good show, guys! Here are a few other things that at least I’m excited for in the remainder of this year, which you of course may or may not agree:
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
28 Years Later
Wake Up Dead Man
I don’t think Frankenstein or Wake Up Dead Man have official release dates from Netflix, but I’m hopeful we will indeed see them this year.
My last gig at the LA Times before I got laid off in early 2001 was doing listings for the Calendar section. We had to get all of our work done for the weekend editions by Wednesday night because Thursday was all about typing in movie times as they were faxed in. There were so many movies in so many theaters it took two of us all day.
ReplyDeleteBefore I got laid off I was a firm believer that newspapers would never go away because, who’s gonna wanna take their laptop into a bathroom stall to read the news…
We had an editorial staff of 200 and a giant printing facility to produce an Orange County edition of the Times.
Now they have one reporter/photographer working remotely to cover 3 million residents over 1,000 square miles.
The response of Patrick when JP said he might reconsider watching the Christian movie because of the voice cast was very funny. That being said, what a cast!
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