[qwph]

If I ran a newspaper, I'd have both articles already written, so I could hit the press as soon as the result was confirmed...

[mattmaroon]

I promise you that everyone who actually does write a newspaper already does. They do that with sports or just about anything that runs late at night but needs to be printed early.

[mixmax]

And don't forget obituaries. Usually the job of interns is to write obituaries so that they're ready when someone unexpectedly dies.

[wensing]

Unless it's Fidel Castro. I work at a newspaper in South Florida. His (incomplete) obituary is very long and has not been written by an intern.

[foobar2k]

You may have seen an example of this happening recently when Bloomberg killed off Steve Jobs:

http://gawker.com/5042795/bloomberg-runs-steve-jobs-obituary

[commiebob]

"dewey defeats truman!"