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[Bill M]

Mr. Gurdus called himself a journalist, but his professional niche — rendered less exclusive but not defunct by the internet — was so unusual that Israelis coined a Hebrew word for him: kashaveynu, or “our listener and correspondent.”

“There were two major events in Michael Gurdus’s life this year,” the profile began. “He acquired a new wife and a new antenna — both beauties.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/obituaries/mickey-gurdus-dead-eavesdropped-on-the-world.html