Seeing a test that the Associated Press used to give to job applicants prompts Jack Limpert to ponder the absurdity of giving such tests to prospective writers, as he was asked to do when editing the Washingtonian: "I often was trying to lure a writer or editor into giving up a good job to join a magazine that was growing but with no guaranteed future. Was I going to ask someone I was trying to steal from another magazine if he or she could add 12 and 8 and get 20?"
September 18, 2015
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