The news that The News is closing after 150 years makes me sad. It's the paper that my family had delivered to our house my first eighteen years of life. For some reason I stayed fiercely loyal to The Rocky Mountain News when I returned to Colorado and refused to look at The Denver Post.
One of my favorite stories - some say it's an urban legend - surrounds a writer of the Rocky Mountain News, along with three other Colorado newspaper writers - who fabricated a story about the Great Wall of China coming down because China wanted to increase trade with other nations. The legend states that the fallout from this false news story helped create The Boxer Rebellion, a violent movement in China in the very early 1900's that saw thousands of Christians and Christian missionaries killed. You can read about the possible uncovering of the urban legend here.
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Hey dude. One of my friends is Dan Skeans. He says you're a pretty cool guy, and I concur. I hope ya get the job!
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