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Journal Roblimo's Journal: How I saved hundreds of newspapers... and won $2000

It all began when I entered a Prototype Newspaper of the Future contest, sponsored by the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. (Grand prize: $2,000!) Okay, I haven't exactly won it yet, but my ideas are so cool and innovative that I am sure to win. I doubt that other entries will combine sex, computer-controlled newspaper delivery robots, drugs, and rock and roll. Why, I have so much confidence in my entry, fellow OJR readers, that I am daring you -- even double-daring you -- to come up with something better.

Idea #1: Sex! Also, cover the future, not just the past and present

Any idiot can write stories about events that have already happened, and even the dumbest, most makeup-wearing TV reporter can bring you "live, on the scene" coverage of events that are happening right now, but only visionaries and psychics can bring you news of events that haven't happened yet and that, indeed, may never happen at all.

(The contest ad said, "Think big. Think radical." So I am!)

Read the rest @ ojr.org.

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How I saved hundreds of newspapers... and won $2000

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