Back in the day, when a reporter and a photographer wanted to silently communicate to one another that an event they were attending did not merit coverage, they had to write a note and surreptitiously show it to the colleague.

Often, you couldn't really say much out loud. That would risk offending one of the event organizers. Hence the note.

Usually, this staffer-to-staffer message would say something along the lines of "No way."

Often there would be an unprintable intensifier starting with the letter F between "No" and "way."

Sometimes there would also be a frank assessment of a certain editor's mental health. 

But now the reporter and photographer can text one another with these professional evaluations of an assignment's worth.

What an amazing age we live in. 

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