mutiny, or journalism?

In order to keep myself busy, I offered to help out the Brock Press by whipping up a little newspaper-design style-guide.
So today I sat down to work on it. At which point I realised it’s a beast of a thing. There is a lot to keep in mind when laying out the various elements of a newspaper.
Not only is it a complex and precise art, but each part has a specific name to it, a technical name that the average person would not know or understand.
Do you know the difference between a deck, a flag and a masthead?
I certainly don’t know why everything newspaper related is nautical themed.
When I disagreed with my editors, was that mutiny? If so I should have walked the plank long ago.
Hmmm. Seems all this design rules and nonsense is driving me a little loopy.
Alas, I must soldier on.
Why do I volunteer for these things anyways?