There’s New York, and then the rest of the country
February 1, 2007 at 2:06 pm by Web Editor in NewsThere’s an interesting lesson in the difference between the influence of the New York Times and our hometown AJC. According to Radar Online, the Times did a 6,000-word story on a Clarkston soccer team comprised of refugee children from as far away as Afghanistan and Sudan. The Times writer now has a book deal and a $2 million offer for movie rights.
However, the AJC’s Sheila M. Poole was the first to cover the story in 2005. Her 928-word opus generated no book deals, no movie rights. Nothing.
Contacted by Radar and asked about the Times stealing her thunder, Poole said, "Isn’t that awful?" and declined to comment further.
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