Just Curious

Please state the answer in the form of a question... Just Curious is the occassional blog of Andrew Nelson. In an attempt to balance the polemical tone of most of the blogosphere, all entries hope to pose at least one useful question. Many entries simply advance useful memes. Personal entries may abandon the interrogative conceit.

Wednesday, July 27, 2005

what reporter was lazy enough to do this?

Okay, let's face it, most of us journos (and ex-journos) are lazier than we like to admit. But this item, cited by Romenesko, is really low:

EDEN — Dave Matthews isn’t Emma Burgin’s favorite band, so the Greensboro woman was surprised when her photo appeared in The Reidsville Review with a comment, attributed to her, saying that it was.

She was surprised because no one at the newspaper ever interviewed her.

Burgin’s photo, and photos of some other young people who have appeared in the newspaper, were copied from Thefacebook.com, a college social networking Web site.

Burgin is one of at least six people — none of whom live in Rockingham County — whose photos appeared in the newspaper’s daily man-on-the-street feature, “Two Cents Worth,” during May.


Someone should keep a blog (or just a page) recording all the Facebook controversies... Northwestern had one its own, of course.

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