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AP Memo/ Advisory On Quoting Greg Packer-[NY Times 'Tourist Guy' & DNC Fan Man on the Street]
Romenesko Media News Website ^
| June 16, 2003
| Jim Romenesko
Posted on 06/16/2003 1:59:17 PM PDT by ewing
News Organization: Associated Press
To: News Editors/ Correspondents USA
The world is full of all kinds of interesting people.
One of them is Greg Packer a [Contsruction Worker] from Huntington, NY who apparently lives to get his name on the Associated Press Wire and in other media.
A Nexis search turned up 100 mentions in various publications. And that is just a handful of the stories. He shows up in AP Broadcast actualities and in one APTN piece.
Mr. Packer is clearly eager to be quoted. Let's be eager too--to find other people to quote.
So far, he is apparently just attending East Coast events. But it is not out of the realm of possibility that he will someday show up in your town, first in line somehwere..
Kristin Gazlay
(Excerpt) Read more at poynter.org ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 100stoires; dnc; gregpacker; newyorktimes; quotemachine; touristguy
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To: kesg
Has a sister named "Meat" and a brother named "Fudge".
To: ewing
I would classify a political patronage job with the city as employment either..That's it. He's the NYC mascot.
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:36:53 PM PDT
by
SquirrelKing
(Beware the tyrrany of the urgent.)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Has a sister named "Meat" and a brother named "Fudge".They both work in Hitlery's staff.
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:38:03 PM PDT
by
SquirrelKing
(Beware the tyrrany of the urgent.)
To: ewing
Why didn't AP ask Greg Packer what he thinks of this memo about quoting him?
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:38:18 PM PDT
by
DPB101
("Will write favorable obits for sex"--New York Times obituary editor circa 1975.)
To: laredo44
Vacation days (20)
Sick days
Personal days
+Whatever days
_______________
= 38 days a year!
Government union jobs
- With that gut at his age it would be interesting too see how much grass he cuts, potholes he fills, and his annual salary.
- Able to take off any day(s) without any advance notice...
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:39:35 PM PDT
by
autoresponder
(SOME CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH...)
To: DPB101
ROTFLOL!
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:40:21 PM PDT
by
ewing
To: ewing
Also noticed some interesting tidbits in there about Jayson Blair's college career.
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:42:17 PM PDT
by
SoDak
To: gov_bean_ counter
He does look like a Jets/Giants fan too, doesn't he?
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:50:00 PM PDT
by
kesg
To: kesg
Rangers fan, definitely.
To: ewing
I'll bet AP didn't notice this on their own.
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posted on
06/16/2003 2:55:40 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
To: Howlin; Greg Packer
To: mewzilla
I wish I knew how to link to the thread that was going on with this guy the other day. It ranks right up there with the classics of all time.
It started out as an Ann Coulter article thread, if that helps in the search.
To: ewing
We have Ann Coulter to thank of "outing" this lefti-mediahog.
To: Tourist Guy
Did you know someone was trying to horn in on your gig?
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posted on
06/16/2003 3:16:17 PM PDT
by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Soccer Mom's flee the Rats for Bush in his flight suit: I call this the Moisture Factor. MF high!)
To: nutmeg
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posted on
06/16/2003 3:28:19 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
To: ewing
Wait a minute...am I to understand that this memo is actually blaming Packer? It's not their fault for quoting him...their lack of legitimacy is his fault.
Geez...Liberals.
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posted on
06/16/2003 3:59:16 PM PDT
by
VaBthang4
(Could someone show me one [1] Loserdopian elected to the federal government?)
To: TontoKowalski
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posted on
06/16/2003 4:42:34 PM PDT
by
WL-law
To: kesg
Does this guy really exist? Does anyone know what he looks like, or where he lives? I suspect he bears a very strong resemblance to Victor Frisbee, frequently quoted in the old Los Angeles Herald-Examiner around New Years Day/ Rose Bowl Parade story time.
-archy-/-
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posted on
06/16/2003 6:00:42 PM PDT
by
archy
(Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
To: mewzilla
Ya think?
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posted on
06/16/2003 6:11:19 PM PDT
by
ewing
To: VaBthang4
Interesting that AP blames Packer, not their own sloppy reportage..
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posted on
06/16/2003 6:12:49 PM PDT
by
ewing
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