Overlooked Stories
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David Shaw did a good job explaining why insignificant stories sometimes attract attention (Oct. 26) while “more consequential reports get little notice.” But early reporting on one of the stories he examines, the House banking scandal, seems to have escaped his notice.
My piece, “House Bouncers,” appeared in Insight about three weeks before news that Congress members were writing bad checks made national headlines. Published the last week of August, 1991, “House Bouncers” told how congressmen were still writing bad checks despite the imminent Government Accounting Office report.
Three weeks later, when the GAO report was published Roll Call wrote it up and the whole ruckus started. I suppose this just further illustrates Shaw’s point that stories often get overlooked.
EVAN GAHR
Washington
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