Look! It's me in the Local PaperMost local papers will print any old rubbish. Far, far too many years ago I got into the Windsor, Slough and Eton Express after winning a fancy-dressed-bicycle competition. What they neglected to mention was that I was the only entrant.
What sad stuff have you been in your local rag for doing? Scan stuff in and show us if you can.
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chthonic, Thu 10 Feb 2005, 10:15)
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PedophiliaOnce I was at a newspaper conference for university newspapers in Vancouver, Canada. One night while getting drunk in the well-stocked computer room, a girl who'd been frantically laying out her next issue asked me and another guy for a favour.
A pros vs cons article on child pornography. I chose cons and wrote a scathingly religious piece about how pornography of all kinds is a sin, and the other guy ranted for 500 words about how much he loves child pornography. Neither of us used our real names, luckily. Anyway, right after the issue was published, the RCMP swooped in and gave them a lot of grief.
We also published a news article in my own paper about the scandal, and I was very careful to keep my knowledge of the participants a secret.
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