You read that right. An elderly, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor slugged a feature writer in the face, right in the Washington Post newsroom. Talk about “creative tension” in the old media. And here blogs were supposed to be crazy?
Henry Allen, senior citizen and ex-Marine, is POed over the decline of the long feature story—although other, less cerebral reasons arose here: namely the obscenity that a colleague taunted him with during an editing session. Allen just didn’t like the copy. More at SolomonScandals.com.
Well, so much for newspapers. Anyone with some charming editor-writer stories from the world of e-books? No fistfights, I’d hope—although a passion for QC always helps.
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