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Reflections on a two-million hit discrepancy

Guest Columnist
Published Friday, August 29, 2008

Journalists are the only people who don’t love summer. News just doesn’t seem to happen as frequently or intensely during those balmy three months in the middle of the year. So I would imagine the press was not disappointed when Russia invaded Georgia. But this summer, it seems the media has an even better friend than Vladimir Putin: ex-presidential candidate John Edwards, who kindly allowed himself to be photographed cradling the “love child” he may have produced with a former campaign staffer.

Momentum for what would become one of the biggest stories of the summer was slow to...

#1 By Ummm 8:39a.m. on August 29, 2008

A freshman? As in you're moving in today?

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