Bart Bachman may remember the event we covered as reporters for competing newspapers, as much as three decades ago, where I told him how much I liked having more than one paper in town.

The Reporter, where he worked, was then in decline, and soon went out of business, while The Conway Daily Sun, for which I was writing, was just starting out. The Mountain Ear was still thriving then, too, so there were three chances for every narrative to reach the public, with as many as three interpretations. That’s just about perfect, because — as every philosopher and circuit judge knows — there are three sides to every story.

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