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November 24, 2004

Destitute lottery winner story

Well put! Dan Gillmor nicely expresses my disgust for newspaper stories purely positive spin on this lottery winner.

The article says "Good thing he wasn't pinching pennies" except of course that may very well be the reason he had such financial problems in the first place. Its also a bad sign that he opted for the lump-sum payment. I guess $88.5 million is enough that he may not manage to blow through it all but I'm not sure of that. The annual payments is a good way to force compulsive spenders to be more sane with the money.

Posted by aarondf at November 24, 2004 11:49 AM

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