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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Confused by Vancouver dateline
Marilyn Marchione, former Beacon Journal reporter, was back on the front page of the Beacon on Tuesday (Oct 18) with a story carrying the enticing headline:
Dieting
heats up
sex life,
study says
I was confused at first by the dateline which was Vancouver, British Columbia. The story mentioned research in Minneapolis. The story failed to mention it, but the Obese Society was meeting in Vancouver and Marilyn was covering it as the medical writer for Associated Press. That gets her name above datleines from all over. In addition to explaining the Vancouver dateline, it would have been nice to mention (boastfully perhaps) that Marilyn was a former BJ reporter.
Click on the headline to read the story.
there was a time, long, long ago on a thriving, healthy paper, when a story by somebody who used to work for the bj would rate a box saying that person was a former bj staffer.
ReplyDeletethat even extended to former copykids. when johnny apple wrote for the nytimes it was noted that he worked for the bj at one time. and he was a copyboy, I believe.