How a thing becomes 'news.'

• Neil Best comments on his Watchdog blog 5/6/08:

"I really, really didn't want to bother Suzyn Waldman Monday with a phone call about Roger Clemens,

• whose return last May 6 inspired an over-the-top reaction from her

• that in turn inspired an over-the-top reaction from the media (including me).

But I did,

• because my editor told me to.

• And she was nice enough to take my call."

Suzyn Waldman to Neil Best, Newsday, 5/6/08, "Nothing Shocks me Anymore."

• (I noticed an out-of -town newspaper somehow remembered the '1-year anniversary' and posted about it on 5/4/08. The Utica Observer-Dispatch, owned by Gatehouse Media).

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