News Budget

1
Every afternoon we met to rank the stories of the day.

2
I decided the story about the bicycle crash wasn’t interesting enough for page 1.

3
You were late getting back with the photo we needed for the sports page.

4
You were in an office romance with a reporter.

5
Is what actually happens more important that what we imagine?

6
The reporter who covered the cops called in to tell us they didn’t have an I.D. on the cyclist who died.

7
It was April.

8
You still hadn’t checked in.

9
Everyone in the newsroom believed you were falling in love.

10
The police reporter came back to the newsroom with a written description of the cyclist who had died.

11
Watching you fall in love gave us all a kind of thrill.

12
The cop reporter read us the description of the body in the morgue.

13
Did I mention that your girlfriend was working in the newsroom that night?

14
We moved the story about the accident to page 1

15
It took us a long time to find your picture in the files.

16
The presses started at 1 a.m.