Trying To Peddle The Ultimate Contrarian Story
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
When I was a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer and had a story to pitch, I used to go editor shopping.
Back in the 1990s when the newspaper had 600 journalists, there were so many departments to shop in -- news, features, sports, the projects desk where they did long, boring investigative stories, and the Sunday magaz…