That is a GREAT newspaper story.
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RT @jeffjarvis
Not, perhaps, my finest journalistic moment but certainly one of the most fun: When Skylab fell and I gave a $10,000 check to a teenager from Australia for bringing it to The Examiner in the last of the old-style newspaper wars.
https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/the-skylab-race-to-san-francisco-18074888.php
https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1654220219429076993
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