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Just a funny relevant event on this thread.... The Washington City Paper 
has a biweekly column on journalism, which mostly skewers the _Washington 
Post_ which I suppose all the local alternative papers do.  Anyway, the 
writer had a bit which criticized the New York Times for running an 
article about the Queens Public Library and its 
multicultural/multilingual mission due to the influx of immigrants into 
Queens -- because the Post "originally" ran an article about this "first."

Well, that wasn't my recollection, because I remembered reading an 
article about this in Cybertimes, which predated the Post article -- I 
remembered it because I mentioned it in a posting to another listgroup.

Anyways, Cybertimes ran an article, which the Post NY people probably 
read, and then wrote an article, and _then_ the NY Times metro section 
wrote a separate article on the same subject -- maybe after reading the 
Post, maybe not.  (Gordy Thompson helped me figure out this timeline.
Thanks btw.)

Anyway, I worked this out with the City Paper writer, but he never put a 
correction in a later column.

In short, online and print work both ways already.  And, btw, I think the 
Cybertimes journalists, whose bylines I don't see in the print paper, 
except when they occasionally get around to reprinting one of their 
articles, write pretty good stuff.

Richard Layman, rllayman@netcom.com
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  202/544-5722 voice -- 202/429-3976 fax

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