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Well, a lot of news comes from PR agencies which are paid to promote stories to news agencies for companies per http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://
by mrep 8y ago
Well, a lot of news comes from PR agencies which are paid to promote stories to news agencies for companies per http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Definitely worth a read.
- aunty_helen 8y agoMy favourite pg essay. There's also https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/
- weber111 8y ago2005 must have been nice: "Online, the answer tends to be a lot simpler. Most people who publish online write what they write for the simple reason that they want to. You can't see the fingerprints of PR firms all over the articles, as you can in so many print publications-- which is one of the reasons, though they may not consciously realize it, that readers trust bloggers more than Business Week... Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic. It's not mystery meat cooked up out of scraps of pitch letters and press releases, and pressed into molds of zippy journalese. It's people writing what they think."