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The Slice archive for March 7, 2014

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014


Annoying Newsroom Behavior No. 59 

Back when quite a few reporters and editors still sucked on cigarettes in newsrooms, I worked with a smoker who typed from a slouched position. He looked like he was doing the luge. At least a couple of times a week, a chunk of smoldering…

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East Jesus, Ohio 

I had a journalism professor in college who used to refer to the hypothetical location of his students' first newspaper jobs. "East Jesus, Ohio," he said. I always thought he made that up. But this morning, I noticed something online. Other people say that, too.…

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Best albums of 1974 

Maybe. Maybe not. But one thing that can be said for this list is that its creator was not afraid to include some pop stuff and it isn't just a painfully esoteric compilation of obscurity. http://rateyourmusic.com/list/justarunner/25_best_albums_of_1974/

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