Major national press exposure for yours truly, rock critic and blogger

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I’m talking about this interview for the professional Web site, JournalismNow.

I also did this TV thing a couple of days ago, but that’s been so well-covered elsewhere that I feel no need to go into here. I will, however, say thanks to the many readers who emailed kind words about that. And, to the handful of other correspondents who took a different tone — well, thank you, too. It honestly never occurred to me that I might be overweight. Now that it’s been pointed out, I’ll have to do something about that!

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