Chicago Tribune
Hoping to avoid being put on the banking beat at the Chicago Tribune,
James Coates talked up the computer revolution: "Why, there even will come a day, I told my big boss, when things like movies and music will be sold as software rather than on reels of celluloid and discs of vinyl. He needed to cover it all before it was too late and the editors at the paper across the street beat him to it." Coates, who just took a buyout, adds: "I did not really believe that movies were going to become software. I was scrambling to survive using the most powerful tool in an investigative reporter's arsenal: Tell the boss that whatever story you are selling is possibly the biggest one that there ever was and that if you don't move fast, the competition will be first with the story that changes the world."
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Schmich returned from vacation to find a changed Trib newsroom (CT)
