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No more tomorrow at the Globe

Globe editors have decided to stop using "yesterday," "today" and "tomorrow" in stories and will instead use specific days of the week for referring to happenings of past, present and future:

The reason for the change is that articles are no longer written only for the newspaper. Breaking news is posted immediately on the Globe’s websites; stories are then fleshed out, posted again, then put into the process for the next day’s paper and the next day’s web entries. With all that traffic, a reliance on "yesterday," "today," and "tomorrow" is an invitation for error.

The one print exception to the rule applies to headlines.

Or to rephrase Paul McCartney:

Wednesday, all my day references seemed so far away; now it looks as though they're here to stay.

Via Nieman Journalism Lab.

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Uhm.... I think you're thinking of Sir Paul?

If you want John, then it would be "Tomorrow Never Knows."

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Three days, filled with pain and sorrow
Yesterday, today and tomorrow

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You're right, correct Liverpudlian now identified.

The gloom must've confused me, but I'm feeling better because the sun'll come out Friday, bet your bottom dollar that Friday there'll be sun.

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Dammit, Adam, you beat me to it. But I'll get over it.

After all, Friday is another day....

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I've got Friday on my mind.

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Karen Carpenter had it right all along (Rainy Days and Mondays...)

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is yesterday's day-after-tomorrow.

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Annie

The sun'll come out
(unspecified day)
Bet your bottom dollar
That (unspecified day)
There'll be sun!

(With apologies to Little Orphan Annie fans)

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That doesn't sound like it would be worth it.

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It's so nice to watch the slow, painful (to them) demise of that rag. I hope they go out of business tomorrow, I mean Friday.

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is always a sign of a publication in decline. I think you got lost on the way to the Herald comments field. It's over there, under the 250-point headlines, the gossip items about Ernie Boch and the 30-part series about a brave little toddler from New Hampshire's epic battle to reel in a four-foot striper before the gub'mint takes his dad's job away, forces contraception down his mother's throat and puts him in a school where he has to learn that the founding fathers owned slaves, wholesale slaughtered Native Americans and took over whole island chains in the Caribbean because they felt it was their divine right.

If you can't find that story, look for the standalone photo of Scott Brown shaking the hand of a man who let his house burn down and created his own series of dirt paths along the interstate highway system just so he could avoid "government dependency."

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Wow, that was definately not a Pulitzer Prize worthy comment but it does represent the knee jerk liberal psychosis that the Globe readers are infected with. Please get help and by the way, get a job.

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troll can't spell.

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Knee jerk liberal psychosis

I'm calling it! That's my band's new name. Don't try to take it, you guys.

P.S. Maybe he can get a job at your workplace, where bitching about newspapers on the company dime is a boon to productivity.

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Your first song can be "La la la, I know when other people are working, la la la."

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i'll make that a hidden track on the first album. It'll be called "Song For Miserable Bastards Who've Never Heard A Song And Bitch About Newspapers From Their Miserable Jobs."

Not really much of an artist, are you? Good luck in the salt mines, jackass.

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Sounds like somebody got stumped by the Sunday crossword this week.

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Where are Day Against DRM events in the MetroBoston area?... Cambridge?... Boston Public Library steps?... Cambridge Public Library park?...

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Thought it's thoughtfully optimistic of you to suggest they'd be in Boston.

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Friday against DRM events?

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Day Against DRM Digital Restrictions Management
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22day+against+drm%22

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