Breaking news, breaking things

I was writing a column on why we need a “no calling list” blocking telemarketer calls to those that do not wish to get them tonight and people kept interrupting me. That’s just the nature of the newsroom though, and I did not think much about it. It did, however, mean that it took me about 2 1/2 hours to finish the column.

After I was done I thought “better check if I have this one fact right” and put “telemarketer do not call list” into Google. A lot of sites popped up but the thing that luckily caught my eye was Google’s news service and a story that had been posted 20 minutes before.

The “do not call list” which had been road-blocked, was out of a sudden in effect. That of course mean that I had to rewrite the whole column.