"They came up with a “charticle” with a dozen examples, starting with Robert E. Lee’s Civil War battle plans for Antietam showing up wrapped around cigars. Allen took a look and didn’t like. He started ranting about the number of mistakes he had found. Hesse at one point asked him to send the copy back to her. She got a bit teary at the verbal beatdown. Allen, according to sources, said: “This is total crap. It’s the second worst story I have seen in Style in 43 years.” Roig-Franzia then wandered into the newsroom. A veteran foreign correspondent, he has been turning out political features for Style. He heard Allen’s rant and stopped by his desk. “Oh, Henry,” he supposedly said, “don’t be such a cocks-----.” Allen lunged at Roig-Franzia, threw him to the newsroom floor, and started throwing punches."

(via natashavc)

J-schools need to start teaching MMA or boxing or something, I don’t want to look stupid when my editor tries to punch me out and I recoil like a little baby (I want to be able to smack him in the gobber).