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To: wagglebee
There are so many real stories of people that surmount obstacles day after day it should be easy enough to find them and get some bio info. Still it's understandable when a columnists decides to conjur people up out of thin air. Why go out when you can work in. Why take a chance your pulitzer potential story have an unsympathetic twist to it. That can't happen if you control it from start to finish.

Besides, if such people don't really exist, they ought to.

7 posted on 06/27/2005 7:11:30 PM PDT by stevem
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To: stevem
Besides, if such people don't really exist, they ought to.

That's probably what Dan Ratherbiased was thinking about the Bush memos.

9 posted on 06/27/2005 7:16:14 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: stevem
There are so many real stories of people that surmount obstacles day after day it should be easy enough to find them and get some bio info.

That, however, would involve work! -- something modern day journalists are allergic to.

Plus, as you point out, the real story might not be the story the journalist wants to tell...

32 posted on 06/27/2005 9:17:30 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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