Kill Your Babies

Talking of Big Media blogging, Business Week’s blog makes good reading. I particularly like this post, because it feels so much like my own working life:

Second, I had to cut the story by a third when it shrank on Wednesday from three columns to two.

And that’s life on a weekly mag, folks. I had a major last-minute rewrite to cope with in the week just gone, and it’s amazing how easily you can cut way paragraphs you once agonised over. Ah, well.