# Are you interested in news media reporting bio info about victims?

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**Created:** [January 2, 2025, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-interested-in-news-media-reporting-bio-info-about-victims/1012499 "2025-01-02T19:43:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-interested-in-news-media-reporting-bio-info-about-victims/1012499/6 "2025-01-02T22:09:50Z")

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I don’t wish to be dismissive of victims at all (and if that’s how my previous post reads, apologies, that wasn’t intended). But per your account, the NYT held their audience pretty well. 😉

j

Ludicrous aside: I was going to add a quote I remembered: journalism is the writing on the back of the adverts - but couldn’t remember who said it. So (after a few false starts) I googled this

_journalism is “the writing on the back of the adverts” Quote_

- which got precisely one hit - SDMB (!) Are we smart or what?

Here is the post in question:

> [@Favorite Words/Phrases/Quotes and Sayings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/176):
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> I have to ask - what in the hell for? I mean, there’s no obvious reason to go, and it’s not like you were just passing through - there’s the A66, and that ends, and then there’s the Irish sea. j

So, to answer my own question, some of us are smart, others not so much. But do I get to keep the quote now?

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