Especially since doing it on your computer is a lot more discreet. I would think in a newsroom today, a reporter typing on his keyboard wouldn't draw a second glance. But a reporter dragging out the trusty IBM Selectric from the basement closet, blowing off the dust, going around asking if anyone saved any extra typewriter ribbon from 1987, and then typing away is going to cause people to stop and ask, what's he doing? Especially since the Dan Rather scam.