[wildbill]

Who was the magazine columnist?: Eleanor Clift or Margaret Whatshername?

[Travis McGee]

It's typical for a reporter with this type of story to "turn" some detail, to provide anonymity for a source who might otherwise be too easily outed.

In this case, a typical "detail turn" would be from radio reporter to magazine reporter.

I think the event happened, but it was not necessarily a magazine reporter.