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Bingo. https://www.google.com/search?q="Thousands+of+job-seekers+flocked+to+one+of+those+employment+fairs+this+week+in+Arlington+County,+Virginia"&filter=0 htt

by jdc 7y ago

Bingo. https://www.google.com/search?q="Thousands+of+job-seekers+flocked+to+one+of+those+employment+fairs+this+week+in+Arlington+County,+Virginia"&filter=0 https://www.google.com/search?q="Thousands+of+job-seekers+fl...

klohto 7y ago
Current media recycles headlines to save on work cost. When you have to churn out 20 articles per day, you don’t have many options left. This doesn’t prove anything.
- jdc 7y ago
  It's good enough for me unless someone can show that the sites in the results are owned by the same company. Edit: The articles seem to be completely identical. That's a lot of recycling!
  - filmgirlcw 7y ago
    CBS offers a wire-service of sorts to many of its affiliates so the same story is reposted lots of different places, similar to the AP.
    - conjectures 7y ago
      'Wire-service' as C20 jargon for copy pasta.
      - filmgirlcw 7y ago
        No...it’s a syndication agreement.
    - deleted 7y ago
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  - hobofan 7y ago
    That doesn't seem strange at all to me. Some news stories come from 3rd party news agencies that sell the articles with non-exclusive rights. E.g. in Germany basically every local newspaper is built on top on articles sourced from dpa (Deutsche Presseagentur), and usually marked accordingly. Of course there are also less reputable methods like just scraping articles from your competition. Either way, it doesn't really _prove_ anything regarding it being a seeded PR piece, though my gut also tells me that it's likely.
fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
The narrative that the labor market is full and therefore wages must remain low must be preserved at all costs. 200k people applied for 30k jobs that's less than 10/1 anyone who has done hiring in IT knows that roughly 1/10 applicants are even qualified for a particular position.
therealcamino 7y ago
If you click through, it's bylined CBS News on those sites. That's not regurgitating PR, that's syndication.

by jdc 7y ago

klohto 7y ago

Current media recycles headlines to save on work cost. When you have to churn out 20 articles per day, you don’t have many options left. This doesn’t prove anything.

jdc 7y ago
It's good enough for me unless someone can show that the sites in the results are owned by the same company. Edit: The articles seem to be completely identical. That's a lot of recycling!
- filmgirlcw 7y ago
  CBS offers a wire-service of sorts to many of its affiliates so the same story is reposted lots of different places, similar to the AP.
  - conjectures 7y ago
    'Wire-service' as C20 jargon for copy pasta.
    - filmgirlcw 7y ago
      No...it’s a syndication agreement.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
- hobofan 7y ago
  That doesn't seem strange at all to me. Some news stories come from 3rd party news agencies that sell the articles with non-exclusive rights. E.g. in Germany basically every local newspaper is built on top on articles sourced from dpa (Deutsche Presseagentur), and usually marked accordingly. Of course there are also less reputable methods like just scraping articles from your competition. Either way, it doesn't really _prove_ anything regarding it being a seeded PR piece, though my gut also tells me that it's likely.

fuzz4lyfe 7y ago

The narrative that the labor market is full and therefore wages must remain low must be preserved at all costs. 200k people applied for 30k jobs that's less than 10/1 anyone who has done hiring in IT knows that roughly 1/10 applicants are even qualified for a particular position.

therealcamino 7y ago

If you click through, it's bylined CBS News on those sites. That's not regurgitating PR, that's syndication.