Newsroom Ode #7: Desperation calls the consultant

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh in a series of Monday odes that chronicle the legacy newsroom. Each is written from different first-person perspective. Together they create the mumbled narrative of a special and sadly contracting culture. The author, Don Nelson, has been a newsman for almost 50 years.

To see previous poems:

Ode #1, City Editor, Friday Night 

Ode #2: Reporter, On Deadline

Ode #3: Copy Editor, Standing Guard

Ode #4: Photographer, Under the Gun

Ode #5: Publisher, In a Squeeze

Ode #6: CEO, In the Catbird Seat

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