"I broke the cancer cure story for the Associated Press," Bob Cullen writes on the About Writing and Editing blog. Did you miss it? No surprise. The story — from 1972 — never hit the A-wire. A New York editor ran it past an AP science writer and it all fell apart. Cullen: "It may be lamentable when cynicism dominates a reporter’s outlook on all phases of life, but it’s a close cousin of skepticism, and skepticism is as important to a journalist as his laptop."
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