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From New York to Los Angeles, anxious editors yesterday uttered one of the most legendary but rarely used phrases in the news business, "Stop the presses!" Most papers were reporting that the trapped West Virginia miners had been found alive.
It meant that readers of most papers were not informed about the astonishing mitigating statement on Neville Thurlbeck's behalf by his lawyer and the plea for leniency by Glenn Mulcaire's lawyer.
Nevertheless, when the detail of the proposed deal emerged blinking into daylight in mid-February most papers were prepared to support it – albeit through gritted teeth, and with some detail still to sort out.
Despite our high expectations at the end only 4 papers were accepted the reason being that among the 31 submissions most papers were immediately rejected as they did not show any sign of reproducibility at all.
Fortunately, most papers were accepted quickly enough, so that now, when I am coming up for tenure, I have quite a body of work to show for my years here.
Along with the Sulzbergers of the New York Times, they were one of the last remaining links to an era when most papers were run by families, not huge corporations.
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