Internet Links, Football Finks and Writing That Stinks

Two weeks is a long time. It’s especially long in the news business when you’re being forced to come up with new ways to cover the same story every day.  This has been my challenge since the Giants beat the 49ers in the NFC Championship game. How do I make sure the story is taken care of every day without resorting to the same old cliched angles? That means no interviews with chefs about their favorite buffalo wing recipes. It means no discussions about what commercials we should all be looking for during the game. And, most importantly, it means no stories based solely on finding idiotic Giant fans who yell their support for Big Blue into the microphone. I think my colleagues and I did a pretty good job. We sent a reporter to take Salsa lessons so he could dance like Victor Cruz.  We had the same guy go to Port Newark and ask the truckers to recite Giselle’s email to her friends, asking them to pray for Tommy.  We sent another reporter to Jets headquarters, to see...