Inside the Sunday news meeting

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What might have been said during the Sunday afternoon news meeting of editors at The Record in Woodland Park:

"OK. What have we got for A-1 tomorrow?"

"A teacher was murdered in her Dumont home, and a soldier from Ramsey died last week in Afghanistan."

"Is Governor Christie a suspect in the murder?"

"No. But her husband is."

"What else?"

"We have a nice feature on all the unemployed professionals who got census takers jobs."

"Don't mention that Victor got one of those jobs. What about the rest of Page 1?"

"We've been getting a lot of heat for not having minority or female columnists, so why not run Tara's column
out front on the guy who won the Masters. His wife has cancer."

"Plenty of wives have cancer. Plenty of husbands lost their insurance and their wives have cancer.
Plenty of wives have probably died of cancer during the recession. What's the connection here?"

"We don't have anything else."