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"Utah mayor used alias to write good-news stories" by Associated Press, November 12, 2011
SALT LAKE CITY - Disguising himself with an alias, the mayor of Utah’s second-largest city has been writing upbeat freelance articles about his town for area news outlets because he claimed the media spent too much time on crime coverage.
He unapologetically revealed himself this week, insisting the balance was needed....
West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder had been writing under the name Richard Burwash, an alias he actually swiped from a real man - a onetime professional tennis player from California - that he found on the Internet.
He said getting stories published by the Deseret News, KSL-TV’s website, and a community weekly was as easy as setting up a Gmail account and Facebook page.
The unpaid writer communicated with editors by e-mail and phone, never showing his face.
As an unpaid writer for several months earlier this year, the so-called Burwash even quoted himself as mayor in some stories.
“I was an easy source,’’ he quipped yesterday.
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