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[Title:] The Morning Report(s)
[Setting:] Modern AU
[Character(s):] Ray
[Summary:] Even someone on the cutting edge can appreciate the traditional way of things
[Author's Notes:] Written for the prompt 'dei Zeit'
Unlike an apparently growing majority of people, Ray has always preferred physical newspapers to their online counterparts. It’s partially because so many papers have truly atrocious web design, but really he just likes the whole aura of reading the paper while drinking his morning coffee. Its a very old-school, nostalgic image, one that almost makes him consider buying a smoking jacket just to complete the look. It wasn’t just nostalgia of course. Physical papers were easier to annotate, to cut out and save interesting or relevant articles, to make the sort of connections that were vital to his work. Of course that tended to leave his breakfast nook looking a bit like a war zone - the various newspapers of the day reduced to a barricade of swiss cheesed scraps pushed to the far edges around multi-lingual land mines of articles, stacked by subject.
It is more than the content of the articles that interest him, though the value of keeping up-to-date on current events through the traditional sources can’t be underestimated. But it’s the language of the articles, the word choices and phrasings, even between articles about the same story just in different languages - that’s where the fascination is. The way just altering a single word or two could change the tone of a story. How different the exact same story could be in dei Zeit versus Le Monde just because of the difference in language. Or between Corriere del Ticino and La Stampa because of their country of circulation. This, even more than the articles themselves is where he finds some of his best leads - figuring what is and isn’t being printed in various areas and extrapolating what that means for current policies and public opinion.
Still, it’s only one of many sources he uses, and despite the relaxing nature of going through everything, he does have a business to run. Businesses. One 'legitimate' and one... less so. Thus, the discarded paper gets swept up into the recycling bin, the articles left on the table to be perused and filed later. For now, there is work to be done - calls to be made, investors to woo, and wannabe hackers to foil. Two businesses forever entangled in each other At least it wasn’t dull.
[Setting:] Modern AU
[Character(s):] Ray
[Summary:] Even someone on the cutting edge can appreciate the traditional way of things
[Author's Notes:] Written for the prompt 'dei Zeit'
Unlike an apparently growing majority of people, Ray has always preferred physical newspapers to their online counterparts. It’s partially because so many papers have truly atrocious web design, but really he just likes the whole aura of reading the paper while drinking his morning coffee. Its a very old-school, nostalgic image, one that almost makes him consider buying a smoking jacket just to complete the look. It wasn’t just nostalgia of course. Physical papers were easier to annotate, to cut out and save interesting or relevant articles, to make the sort of connections that were vital to his work. Of course that tended to leave his breakfast nook looking a bit like a war zone - the various newspapers of the day reduced to a barricade of swiss cheesed scraps pushed to the far edges around multi-lingual land mines of articles, stacked by subject.
It is more than the content of the articles that interest him, though the value of keeping up-to-date on current events through the traditional sources can’t be underestimated. But it’s the language of the articles, the word choices and phrasings, even between articles about the same story just in different languages - that’s where the fascination is. The way just altering a single word or two could change the tone of a story. How different the exact same story could be in dei Zeit versus Le Monde just because of the difference in language. Or between Corriere del Ticino and La Stampa because of their country of circulation. This, even more than the articles themselves is where he finds some of his best leads - figuring what is and isn’t being printed in various areas and extrapolating what that means for current policies and public opinion.
Still, it’s only one of many sources he uses, and despite the relaxing nature of going through everything, he does have a business to run. Businesses. One 'legitimate' and one... less so. Thus, the discarded paper gets swept up into the recycling bin, the articles left on the table to be perused and filed later. For now, there is work to be done - calls to be made, investors to woo, and wannabe hackers to foil. Two businesses forever entangled in each other At least it wasn’t dull.