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Topic: Any newshounds inadvertently become headlines?
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| writesonwater | Posted – 2/8/2008 9:55:04 AM | show profile | email poster My blog today recalls the time I inadvertently made headlines when I was covering the news. I'd love it if fellow MBer's would post comments on my blog (and here!) of their own stories of occasions when this has happened to them: http://writingporch.blogspot.com/ ------ http://writingporch.blogspot.com/ http://jlouiselarson.blogspot.com/ http://familyrootsandwings.blogspot.com/ |
| Righter | Posted – 2/8/2008 11:31:51 AM | show profile Oh my god w.o.w you lived in McAllen?! I lived there for a couple of years in the mid-nineties and went to elementary and junior high school there. Those were some very special years for me and it was so hard when my family moved away, though I know it was best for us at the time. But now, whenever I meet someone from texas and I tell them where I lived they're like, nah, never heard of it. It always gives me a little bit of joy when someone actually knows McAllen (and actually, I lived in Mission, but that's even more obscure). I haven't been back since and I can't even imagine how much it's grown, at the rate it was going. When we first moved, our house was the only one built for blocks, and two years later, three neighborhoods had already popped up. I also heard Microsoft has its xbox repair warehouse in McAllen. |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 2/8/2008 11:55:09 AM | show profile Wasn't in my role as a news hound, but in PR - in college, I was an intern in my governor's press office, and a group of us from the office (all the professionals- I was the only inern) went to a local minor-league baseball game one night. Someone decided it was a good idea to volunteer to lead the YMCA song standing on the dugout with the promotions folks. Well, the newspaper reporter who covered the governor's office just happened to be attending the game and saw us, recognized us and found her paper's photog tthere to quickly take a photo. We appeared in the newspaper the next day with a long cutline. Nice. Just glad we didn't have beers in our hands! |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 2/8/2008 12:01:47 PM | show profile by the way, I've heard of McAllen :) I'm surprised you've found Texans who haven't heard of it! |
| caitlinkelly | Posted – 2/8/2008 12:17:51 PM | show profile I've made front page of the local (countywide) newspaper twice, once playing softball (with a color photo of me at bat) and once with a long feature about my book. When I covered the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth to Canada in the '80s my coverage resulted in headlines in all the British press, some of it front-page. I even got death threats. Very exciting. |
| wineaux | Posted – 2/8/2008 12:55:25 PM | show profile My crumpled car made the cover of the L.A. times when I was hit by a semi on the freeway. I wasn't hurt too badly, but the article made it sound like I was crippled from the crash. The barrage of attention even from people who only remotely knew me was a bit much. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a regular person like me and be thrust into a major news story. It must be a terrific invasion of privacy. When the U.S. soldier loss rate hit 300, I took my children to a Buddhist monastery in my old town, where they were holding a candlelight vigil in honor of those lost. The one phootographer that showed up spent the entire hour laying on the ground, taking about 200 shots of the three of us. It made the cover of the local paper in my city. Seven a.m. the next morning, my elderly neighbor was pounding on my door, thrilled to tears. The kids thought they were famous for a few days. I couldn't believe how many people had nasty, judgemental things to say about our attending the vigil. It had nothig to do with protesting the war. It was about mourning the loss of 300 Americans. I wanted my children to understand that war means death, loss, and pain. All I wanted was for my children to grow up with some empathy and an uderstanding of what war can do to a community. You'd have thought that I paraded with them up and down the street, shouting Anti-America slurs. Holy Freedom frys! Anyhow, neither of my experiences were too great, I have to say. But, the kids just love to show people the color photo of themselves. I'll be a little more wary now if I see someone heading towards me at an event with a camara, for sure. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 2/8/2008 5:34:44 PM | show profile | email poster Oh these are all gooood stories -- could you kindly copy and paste them into the comments section of my blog? Don't stress if not -- I don't mean to make your day more hectic. On McAllen, Righter -- my son was at Morris Junior High in the mid-90s, just a year, and then both my sons went to the Teacher Academy in Edinburg. Elementaries my kids went to included Milam and McCauliffe and Garza, also Sharyland. At that time, I took time off with my third baby and did parenting columns in The Monitor and also a cooking/feature column in the Town Crier. We lived right by Bill Schupp Park, in the Flower Streets (if you recall, the whole city is delightfully alphabetized) We also had property in the Sharyland area -- on Taylor and on Glasscock, and I did some work for the Mission Progress Times publisher, the legendary June Brann. I miss the palm trees and cheap Mexican glassware!!! ------ http://writingporch.blogspot.com/ http://jlouiselarson.blogspot.com/ http://familyrootsandwings.blogspot.com/ |
| writesonwater | Posted – 2/8/2008 10:33:17 PM | show profile | email poster If you'd be willing to share your account about inadvertently making headlines, (for a piece about that, for my writing blog and possibly other sites interested in pieces about writing) please email me -- I'm enabling email. Thanks! ------ http://writingporch.blogspot.com/ http://jlouiselarson.blogspot.com/ http://familyrootsandwings.blogspot.com/ |
