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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Thomas B. Griffith

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Thomas B. Griffith
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: July 5
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Thomas Beall Griffith
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