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It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. there is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the johnstown flood of 1889. the kid wrote: god sat on a hillside overlooking johnstown today and looked at the destruction he had wrought. his editor cabled back: forget flood. interview god.
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It Goes To Show You How We

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It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. there is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the johnstown flood of 1889. the kid wrote: god sat on a hillside overlooking johnstown today and looked at the destruction he had wrought. his editor cabled back: forget flood. interview god.
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