I sold a photo to NPR on Friday – twenty-five bucks. They needed a shot of Buttkiss (I still shudder to see it spelled that way) for their story on the Richmond Hill ichthyological landmark. Human beings get only fifteen minutes, but this fish is into his sixth month of fame. And a piece came out in the Daily News too. Every day that fish lives from here on in, the legend will grow.
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apparently the fish has aged 3 years in the 6 months since you wrote the post
i also noticed that despite sending a reporter to the store, they added no details to your story and omitted some of the better ones.
The owner seemed pretty confident in telling me that he first had the fish in 1968, so I’m surprised that he’s saying 1966 now. But maybe the fish’s fame caused him to go take a look at old records or something and correct the story. Or the fame is slowly transforming this into a “fish story.”
As for the handling of the material, it’s always interesting to compare how different people tackle precisely the same story. Seeing the other versions, I still like what I did, but I think part of that is the relative freedom you get at Gothamist as opposed to traditional journalism.