Paper replaces its journalists for a day

Maybe this will catch on.

The New Yorker reports how the Israeli paper Ha’aretz decided to ditch all its journalists for one day and replace them with literati.

The results were interesting.This was the business update written by a cookery writer

Everything’s okay. Everything’s like usual. Yesterday trading ended. Everything’s okay. The economists went to their homes, the laundry is drying on the lines, dinners are waiting in place… Dow Jones traded steadily and closed with 8,761 points, Nasdaq added 0.9% to a level of 1,860 points…. The guy from the shakshuka [an Israeli egg-and-tomato dish] shop raised his prices again….