'Eric Malnic Was A Newspaperman'

James Rainey’s touching tribute to recently-deceased reporter Eric Malnic appeared over the weekend in Rainey’s On The Media column.

Malnic loved the competition of newspapers. That’s why he paid off a bunch of cabbies to make themselves scarce at the Fresno airport, to get the jump on rival reporters flying in to cover an earthquake. That’s why he refused to accept that authorities had closed the scene of a fatal train collision to reporters. He rented a four-wheel drive to get there.

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