In the aftermath of major disasters, the wire services run a list of victims, something I used to think was to inform the editors of local newspapers of potential links to their own circulation area. But then my boss told me to run them.
“Why?” I asked. “We don’t have that much space for wire news.” Meaning national and international stories.
“Everybody’s from somewhere,” he answered. And I soon learned how true that was.
In fact, here in New Hampshire, we’ve come to expect a Granite State angle in almost every breaking story.
Small world, indeed.
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