"I was employed as a sub-editor for ______ Magazine, which is a subsidiary of ____________ Newspapers. The magazine was originally a weekly pull-out which ceased production pending its proposed revamp into a monthly, stand alone lifestyle magazine. But this never happened. The entire time I was there not a single issue of the magazine was ever published, even though four editions were designed, interviews undertaken, research completed and everything was good to go in soft-copy format, but it never reached production.
So for the most part there was nothing to do. My colleagues and I filled our days surfing the net, ‘gisting’ and generally loafing about, our cynicism growing each time management announced a production date for the magazine which came and went with no result."
This piece troubled me greatly, something about the suthor's attitude... Read on...
http://www.hausanigerian.blogspot.com/2013/09/exposed-inside-nigerian-newspaper.html?m=1