Re: the Essjay affair, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:

Now how did that attract international mainstream media attention?

I think it was probably due to my own boyish good looks. A friend of mine from high school phoned a couple of days ago to say that he had just seen me on television. Apparently one of the TV networks did a brief story about l'affaire Essjay that included some stock footage from Wikimania 2006, and there I was in the middle of the shot, sitting in a conference room and typing on my laptop.

If their footage had been of someone else, they'd probably have ignored the story completely. Those TV reporters...so shallow...sniff... ;-)

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