For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it ...

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

quote by Charles Kuralt
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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