Seven years ago, when I was a commissioning editor, a young hackette pitched me the following feature idea:
"What about something on really bad things that have happened on Valentine's Day, eg St. Valentine's Day Massacre?"
I wrote back: "give me three others."
We never heard from her again.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Have you changed your mind about Max Gogarty, then?
Apologies if you've, like, actually checked this, but is he NOT the 19-year-old son of Paul Gogarty, who six years ago wrote about his 13-year-old son in The Guardian Travel section?
Poor kid, anyway.
The Guardian travel editor must have his facts wrong then:
http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/blogs/2008/02/guardians-teenage-travel-blogg.html
Darn it, I was going to suggest Max Gogarty's travel blog as the worst feature idea ever. I am clearly SO two weeks ago.
Perhaps she'll re-pitch the idea in light of yesterday's tragedy?
Post a Comment