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	35yr News Veteran Retires and Announces it on a local Blogspot Blog

treocast

3-28-2007 4:06 PM

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treocast says:

I thought it was interesting that this 35-year veteran broke the story on a local blog. The local paper (the largest paper serving the 4th largest city in the country) found out about it and had to report about it from the interview that was posted to the blog the day earlier.

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