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A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press rele
by git_rancher 8y ago
A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press releases.
Edit: typo fix
- soared 8y agoYeah but using a press release as a source doesn’t mean the article is basically pr. You can get info from a press release and write a completely negative article about the topic for example.
- danso 8y agoThere's a difference between journalists first learning about things through a press release, and the journalism actually just being PR, i.e. parroting PR rather than challenging or extrapolating upon it.
- carapat_virulat 8y agoThe Knife Media usually does analysis about how much spin different newspapers add to current news stories: https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-news/pompeo-kim-jong-un-media-spun-political-spin/ https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-news/pompeo-kim-jong-un-...