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Subject:Re: Getting the programmers to come to you From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:11:12 -0800
At 09:19 PM 3/13/97 -0500, Debbie Molinaro wrote:
>Our job is more like investigative journalism than anything else. I can't
>imagine Linda Ellerbee complaining to her producer, "But the Senator
>wouldn't give me a comment." So I say, resort to the bribes. We are not
>talking about immoral activites here...we're talking Twinkies!
>
On good days it's like being an investigative reporter. On bad days it's
like writing obituaries.
--Wayne Douglass
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