On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Ubiquitous wrote:

> Now this is a sweet story, from the Associated Press:
>
> A North Dakota newspaper columnist sat down to review her
> town's hot new Italian restaurant, rhapsodizing about the
> chicken Alfredo, crisp greens and "two long, warm breadsticks."
>
> But because the restaurant was the Olive Garden, Marilyn
> Hagerty's earnest assessment swiftly became an Internet
> sensation, drawing comments both sincere and sarcastic from
> food bloggers and others. For the 85-year-old Hagerty, the
> response was bewildering--and it threatened to make her late
> for a bridge game. . . .
>
And I never hear about these things from the internet.

They all come from old media (I saw this on tv already).

Which means either I really am out of the loop, or the reality is that
"viral" often means going to old media to get travel.

Michael