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"At a lot of places the hockey beat is a place to test young writers and see if they can handle something bigger."
"What bothers me is when people call blogging "citizen journalism." I've seen stuff written about me on blogs that's just inaccurate."
"If you are an mlb.com correspondent and you start writing things critical of Bud Selig do you think you would keep your job? It may not be edited by MLB but MLB would remember what you wrote. When it came time to pick the correspondents for next season they would go in another direction."
Helene Elliott LA Times

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