Flutterby™! : how not to get busted

So the story is fairly basic: The Tyler Telegraph had a story about an ex-cop who's marketing a "how not to get busted" video because he's fed up with the idiocy and inefficacy of the drug war:

Cooper, once "the best" drug officer in West Texas, according to his former superiors, told the newspaper during an interview Wednesday night that he believes marijuana should be legalized, and that the imprisonment of those caught with the drug destroys their families and fills up jails and prisons across the country with non-violent offenders.

ie: bad cop sees the light and goes good. But what's interesting is that while many outlets ran a simple reprint of the AP rip-off of the story, ie: SFGate's republication of same, while the Guardian story that turned up when I did a Google News search is complete with links. The latter clearly gets the web.