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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Russians discover Atlantis (???)
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 13:52:54 EDT
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> I noticed a headline in one of those junk newspapers
> that one sometimes finds in Supermarkets, saying
> "Russian Submarine Discovers Atlantis!".
> 
> I wonder what method these papers use to create their
> stories, do they just dream them up out of thin air?

A fellow I once worked for claimed that he once worked for one of
"those" papers, and as I recall he said (hey, I know that's not
an authoritative source, but this *is* net.rumor :-) that his job
was to monitor the unbelievable volume of stuff coming over the
regular wire services and look for opportunities to create interesting
stories by using news items out of context.

As an aside, he also claimed to have worked for a legit daily, also
selecting the incoming wire stories.  The publisher and editor provided
"guidelines" such as "anything bad about Democrats".  He didn't have
much more respect for that paper than for the pulp rag.  They didn't
take things out of context, but did pick and choose what news to report.
At least with the Enquirer you know what you're getting.
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Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug