By: E & P Staff Love him or hate him, you've got to hand it to Michael Moore: He's got newsprint in his veins. Everyone knows he once ran an alternative newspaper in Flint, Michigan, and that he's currently writing for USA Today. But did you know that he is, even more impressively, a former News Boy of the Week?
As Ali G might say: Respect.
Yes, it's all there in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, with Moore on the cover. Inside, within the Moore feature, appears a small, faded news clip from his hometown weekly, the Davison (MI) Index. It dates from 1965, and it includes a picture of an already-pudgy Mike under the headline "News Boy of the Week."
According to the caption, "Mike," a sixth grader, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore, had been picked carrier of the week despite being "comparatively new" at the job. Pictured with him was one of the newspaper's photogs, who demonstrates how to use an enlarger.
The Index is still around, with a circulation of about 10,000. Moore's circulation, you might say, has moved a bit beyond that, and he no longer has to go door-to-door.
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