Re: [Leica] Is this believable?

["Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>]

Don't you think this story is so commonplace, who's going to run it, The
NYT, for god sake. It took them 20 years to say "Gay".
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From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Is this believable?


> Google News has a database of 4000 newspapers, and you can ask it to
search all of them at once. Typing the search query
> photographer cheney maginnis
> into Google News will give you the 2600 article but nothing else. My
opinion is that if this story were true, that at least one other newspaper
would have mentioned it.
>
> Pick something that really happened, like (say) "nuns murdered" or "bank
fraud" and you will see thousands of articles. Pick something really
obscure, like "tompkins county commissioner", and you'll see lots of
newspapers that you never knew existed.
>
> Brian Reid
> (who happens to be Director of Operations at Google, Inc)
>
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