tagryn's musings

There's an interesting cycle I've been only on the edges of so far, being a newbie: the day that the Census Bureau releases a new report, the branch in charge of that report usually gets quite a few calls from the national media: AP, Reuters, NY Times, etc., all wanting confirmation or clarifications. Then the *next* day after the report's release is when the stories hit the papers - "IMMIGRATION DOWN SLIGHTLY ACCORDING TO CENSUS BUREAU REPORT!" - which sets off another cycle of media calls, etc. It usually calms down after a couple of days, at least until the next report is released (by a separate branch usually, though, which provides some breathing space).

Welcome to doing work everybody is interested in knowing about, I suppose.