Jack Shafer blows the lid off journalists' (bizarrely!) averse take on working weekends.

Newspaper journalists hate working weekends, so they keep a vigil all week for a special kind of crap that they can write up on Friday and bank for publication on Monday. The crap must be as nonperishable as a MoonPie, preferably linked to a "study" or "report" that won't be "released" until Monday but one the press can get a sneak peek of by Friday.

Crap stories? The kind that are penned in advance, pre-schedued and ready to go on a Monday or, say, Wednesday morning?

Now why didn't we think of that? Oh, wait.

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