Why not?
Press Release, News Story: What’s the Difference?
I can't get much exercised about this. The major media work hand-in-glove with the Democrats, and everybody with a functioning brain cell knows it.
So why bother to re-word a press release and put some reporter's name on it? Just publish the damned thing, and be done with it. What's left of your dwindling audience will never notice the difference, because there isn't any difference.
Anyway, it's not as if these outfits any longer have some reputation for unbiased journalism to protect. They forfeited whatever remained of that during the last presidential election, and it ain't coming back.
Byron
On February 23, ABC TV Channel 7, WTRF News (Wheeling, West Virginia/ Steubenville, Ohio), posted on its website what was originally credited as a story “written by” reporter Bob Westfall. Unfortunately, though, this posting was nothing but a word-for-word re-posting of Democrat Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown’s latest press release. There was little to no difference between Brown’s press release and the “story” as posted on the ABC 7 news site.
I can't get much exercised about this. The major media work hand-in-glove with the Democrats, and everybody with a functioning brain cell knows it.
So why bother to re-word a press release and put some reporter's name on it? Just publish the damned thing, and be done with it. What's left of your dwindling audience will never notice the difference, because there isn't any difference.
Anyway, it's not as if these outfits any longer have some reputation for unbiased journalism to protect. They forfeited whatever remained of that during the last presidential election, and it ain't coming back.
Byron
posted by Byron | Sunday, February 28, 2010
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