IT’S NOT PLAGIARISM when you repeat stuff from a press release without checking it — but it’s not journalism, either. It’s not even very good punditry.
Bah. I’ve been seeing that happen in the computer press for years.
Microsoft Press Release: Food-For-Windows is the best thing ever, it will revolutionize your recipes!
Computer Press “Review”: Food for Windows will revolutionize your recipes!
Its even funnier when much like Kerry’s “plan” for everything, “Food for Windows” turns out to be vaporware and there’s no way anyone could have reviewed it.
Understanding the MainStream Media is much easier if you just picture them as alcoholics in fedoras and trench-coats who just want to file their story as quickly as possible in order to get back to the buffet table. Yeah, they could spend hours reviewing the software, or tracking down facts, or whatever the naive assume that journalists do. Or they could cut/paste and go back to the buffet line while there are still some shrimp left…
The MSM isn’t evil/biased/liberal, just incompetent.
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