Newspaper consumes my life::but I love it.

For those who know me well, they know of my passion for newspaper. The Tower Times in particular.

I enjoy writing on occasion, but primarily I love design. I like making things look streamlined and professional. I love going and cleaning up the pages after they are (hopefully) done by the page editors. Straighening a crooked line, adding hairlines to photos, resizing a graphic to fill gray space. I enjoy it (I know it's odd). I picked up the Arkansas Democrat Gazette today and browsed while on break at work. As I glanced through the columns and editorial cartoons, noticed some major design errors made by this newspaper. I was incredibly disappointed.

It's a big newspaper. It should be wonderful. False. I pictured them frantically trying to design pages and finalizing stories everyday like we do for our tiny collge paper. I garnered much joy from the image. While I don't know for sure they experience that same stress, I guess I can no longer assume that just because it is a popular paper they would not have some last-minute botchy pages.