ABSTRACT
The photograph for the front cover has disappeared, the computer files containing a major story are lost in a database, you don’t know where you are in the countdown to deadline, you’re about to miss your slot on the printing press, your publication will certainly lose sales, it’s all your fault and you could lose your job. But not before you have had a very expensive photographer on the phone asking for his valuable transparencies back, an irate contributor wanting to know who inserted several gross inaccuracies in her copy, the printer’s production controller nagging you to deliver material according to schedule, and an editor or publisher (or both) raving at you for all of the above and more.
