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Making headlines
By Logan | April 7, 2008
A story I wrote for Sunday’s paper got picked up all over the country (including Canada, a suburb of the U.S.) and even on a China news site. AP did a rewrite of my story and it went out on the wire. But not everybody used it as a news story. From the Lone Star Times blog:
“A 96-year-old man who outlived two wives is separated from his third - by immigration problems.
Canadian Doreen Buttery, 73, was a temporary visitor when she met Leonard “Woody” Woodward at a senior center in Provo.”
96 years old, on his third wife, and the dude’s nickname is “Woody”.
Read the rest (including the Viagra jokes) here.
[UPDATE 5:08 p.m.] By now it’s literally everywhere, including on MSNBC.
Wow!! Congrats Logan! That’s really neat that your story got picked up!
Posted by: Haley on April 7th, 2008 at 8:14 pm1) Great story.
Posted by: Beckie on April 10th, 2008 at 4:14 pm2) This ‘we’ll slightly tweak your story and act like it was our own’ thing is lame!
Yeah, no doubt. I wish it could have gone out with my byline. I would have been happy to write a shorter, newsy version for the wire like they did.
Posted by: Logan on April 10th, 2008 at 6:28 pmFine work, Mr. Molyneaux.
The AP is evil. That’s all there is to it …
Posted by: Matt on April 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm