For all of you, Happy Thanksgiving!
And a special treat for our journalist friends, some of whom will be working during the holiday weekend, a little humor to pass the time.
First up, the Twitter sensation, Fake AP Stylebook, @fakeapstylebook.
Also: “Fake AP Stylebook Twitter Feed Lands an Agent”
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Next, check out Overheard in the Newsroom, available in Facebook and Twitter (@ohnewsroom) flavors, too.
• Columnist filling out journalism contest entry form: “Shit. I almost put ‘alcohol’ where it asks you your hobbies.”
• Reporter: “So wait… you essentially want me to add 100 words worth of nothing. OK.”
• “Oh, another furlough day. That’s like having sex and then finding out you have to pay for it.”
• Reporter: “Isn’t that strange?” Other Reporter: “If everybody did things that were perfectly normal, we would be out of a job.”
• Producer on how cold the newsroom is: “My urine is freezing inside of me.”
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