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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
by 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 agoCBS 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 agoNo...it’s a syndication agreement.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- hobofan 7y agoThat 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.