(Source: Article by Ryan Smith in the Chicago Reader, June 30, 2015)
CHICAGO — Nine years ago, I published a blog entry that casually referred to a lunch I’d had in New York City with a college friend of mine. It was the tiny bread crumb that led the national media to my virtual door one morning last month. I woke up to a barrage of online messages from producers of outlets ranging from NBC News to CCTV (the English-language news channel run by Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television), who targeted my e-mail, Twitter, Facebook—even my LinkedIn account. All of them asked if I could speak to them about this old pal.
Why did the media suddenly care about one of my lunch dates from 2006? Because of Amtrak 188.
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