By Wayne Hughes<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was a cub newspaper reporter, we called the night editor \u201cknuckles.\u201d\u00a0 We\u2019d turn copy over to him, proud of getting it on his desk before deadline.<\/p>\n

When he saw a problem, he broke young reporters to his way of doing things by standing, shoving aside the mounds of teletype paper, empty coffee cups and ash trays brimming with half-smoked cigars, leaning over his desk and supporting himself on his knuckles.<\/p>\n

We knew what was coming, so we tried not to make eye contact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,20,11],"tags":[540,541,542,543],"class_list":["post-6651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-columns","category-news","category-tactics","tag-audio-book","tag-narration","tag-narrator","tag-wayne-hughes"],"yoast_head":"\n