What Reporters Should Say

We had a call from someone identifying themselves as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times today.
We were so busy trying to figure out which one of our friends was pretending to be a reporter from the Los Angeles Times and what sort of joke they were trying to pull, that we really didn't have time to think up great answers to the perfectly legitimate questions being asked by the apparently real reporter.
So, we would just like to suggest that when reporters call someone they might want to say something like this, "Hello, this is Bob Smith. I am a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and not one of your friends setting you up for a joke."
See, had we known right up front that the whole thing was real - we would have found some way to work in the fact that we are Eastern Washington's Number One Tourist Destination. So, instead of having a chance to get in a perfectly fine, self-serving plug we only answered his questions. How much fun is that?