How hard could it be? You take Dimensional Portal(TM) technology and push - ahem, I mean convince - several seasoned (I like mine with more salt than is healthy and a dash of Tabasco) journalists through it. (Oh, don't be so judgmental - 90 per cent of th... moreHow hard could it be? You take Dimensional Portal(TM) technology and push - ahem, I mean convince - several seasoned (I like mine with more salt than is healthy and a dash of Tabasco) journalists through it. (Oh, don't be so judgmental - 90 per cent of that sentence worked!) Once they've been in the alternate reality long enough, you expect them to send back news articles about what they find there. You'd think it would be easy.
Of course, it's hell. For one thing, there are the strange beats. Courts. International Politics. Pie Eating Contests. Okay, I'm not sure about the last one, but Meredyth Flimflamflooie has been submitting three articles on the subject a week faithfully for the last seven years, and I haven't the heart to tell her that we can't use her recipes because we don't have the key ingredients on Earth Prime.
Or, the journalists. My father (who was a chiropractor - what? You got something against people getting medical attention for their backs?) always told ... less
