On The Night Beat: Brake Lights, Flash Lights, And Media Lite

When there were newspapers, and we worked for them, we called the graveyard shifts “The Lobster” or “Nightside.” The journalist gypsies who populated the shifts went by a variety of names: “Nighthawkers,” “Ghouls,” “Darksiders.” For some, it was a desirable gig. Little management oversight (most reporters are independent cusses to begin with), we had our…

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