February 05, 2009

So its shall be written...

The Miami Herald: on standby for fidel:

"At Miami Herald Media Company, Fidel Castro is the journalistic equivalent of a kidney stone -- a constant pain who never seems to go away, and you pray that he passes, soon," Manny Garcia, the paper's senior editor/news, writes in an online column today about the 82-year-old Cuban leader. "Castro is part of our collective newsroom psyche, even outside One Herald Plaza. You could be on an African safari when Fidel dies and you gotta come home. Publisher's orders."

Not just waiting on standby, but preparing:

"We sit in meetings, long meetings, going over possible stories." Garcia writes. "Phrasing. Tone. Length. We got at least five different versions of Fidel's obit, pegged to the time of day or night he dies. We built a Web page for the big day -- dubbed the `Holy (bleep)' page."

A C-note says they even got special advertising rates for the big day, and double or nothing says there's plenty of advertisers already booked.

H/T Penultimos Dias.

Posted by Val Prieto at February 5, 2009 07:49 AM

Comments

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - I've been dealing with this for the past two years on month-to-month basis. This guy's a kindred spirit in a way.

Posted by: CubaWatch [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 5, 2009 09:17 AM


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