More Proof that 24/7 News Organizations Are Bad Things

The fact that his employer is trying to cope with the coming internet tidal wave:

slacktivist: Tell them I said something: So the paper isn't just a paper anymore, but rather a "24/7 news organization." I could go on here about the future of the newspaper business and all of the opportunities and potentialities and pitfalls of newspapers online, but I won't because: A) that conversation sounds a bit too 2001 (not as in "A Space Odyssey" but as in five years ago); and because B) none of the people planning this transition to a "24/7 news organization" seem to be up to speed on those conversations from 2001, or 2002, or 2003....

No lie, a couple of weeks ago I heard someone talking about how to make the paper's Web site "sticky." Remember that? It's like somebody got a hold of AOL's business plan from 1999, the section titled "Google: A Fad That Will Fade." Anyway, the upshot of this is that the "temporary, for the next six months or so" overnight schedule I've been working for the last two years is even less likely to be temporary...

has driven Fred of Slacktivist mad--and not in a good way:

...which is, I guess, my point here: If there is a God, then God must be, by definition, bigger and more merciful than Townes Van Zandt.