I wish I could multitask like John Harrington can. Recently, he covered John McCain’s victory party in Virginia and talked to some of his colleague’s about what they had to do and how late their deadlines were. In typical fashion Reuters and AP said they would have pictures on the wire within 2-3 minutes of McCain coming to the stage. The two newspaper photographers had until 9:15 p.m. Sometimes I miss those days and sometimes I don’t.



Say what you will about the artistic merits of the quickly made wire photo, the more important thing is that the AP image hits the first, or the Reuters, or at least that there is a clear winner in who made it first. Truly, crushing deadlines.