Another day, another Enterprise
This week officially begins the season of rushing around, long-distance driving or crowded airline flights, big meals with family and/or friends and serious overspending.
We at The Enterprise like to celebrate as much as any of you – and we do. We have staff members from across the country who, generally, sometime during these few weeks, try to grab a few days to reconnect with their home bases.
But their Thanksgiving might not be on Thursday, Nov. 23 as yours is. It is as likely to be on Friday Dec. 1, or Monday, Dec. 11 – and Christmas and New Year’s might be rolled into that three-or-four-day weekend as well.
As I tell school groups who some to tour The Enterprise, we are a DAILY newspaper. That means we come out every day – Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Easter Sunday, Mother’s Day – every day. In order to do that someone – actually more than one someone – has to work those days.
The newspaper is produced in a cycle that begins with newsgathering and writing, progresses through page design and production, into printing and then distribution. Then it begins all over again. It takes a team of people doing what they do best to make it happen. Producing a newspaper is a 24-hour cycle that happens every 24 hours. So we’re here, as we should be. That’s not whining, we all chose to do this job, knowing this is one of the minuses that goes with all the plusses.
We also recognize that there are many more people out there, from fast-food workers and convenience store clerks to fire fighters, police officers, nurses, doctors and others who are equally willing to work today. Many, if not most, of those are much more essential than those of us who simply report what they do.
So, from The Enterprise, Happy Thanksgiving. We’ll see you in the morning. We’ll be that overstuffed one in the plastic wrapper.
We at The Enterprise like to celebrate as much as any of you – and we do. We have staff members from across the country who, generally, sometime during these few weeks, try to grab a few days to reconnect with their home bases.
But their Thanksgiving might not be on Thursday, Nov. 23 as yours is. It is as likely to be on Friday Dec. 1, or Monday, Dec. 11 – and Christmas and New Year’s might be rolled into that three-or-four-day weekend as well.
As I tell school groups who some to tour The Enterprise, we are a DAILY newspaper. That means we come out every day – Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Easter Sunday, Mother’s Day – every day. In order to do that someone – actually more than one someone – has to work those days.
The newspaper is produced in a cycle that begins with newsgathering and writing, progresses through page design and production, into printing and then distribution. Then it begins all over again. It takes a team of people doing what they do best to make it happen. Producing a newspaper is a 24-hour cycle that happens every 24 hours. So we’re here, as we should be. That’s not whining, we all chose to do this job, knowing this is one of the minuses that goes with all the plusses.
We also recognize that there are many more people out there, from fast-food workers and convenience store clerks to fire fighters, police officers, nurses, doctors and others who are equally willing to work today. Many, if not most, of those are much more essential than those of us who simply report what they do.
So, from The Enterprise, Happy Thanksgiving. We’ll see you in the morning. We’ll be that overstuffed one in the plastic wrapper.
posted by Sheila Friedeck at 12:33 PM
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