Flat Earth News is a good book that digs into why news outlets pushing PR statements verbatim (alongside other problems) became a thing. Basically fewer journa

Flat Earth News is a good book that digs into why news outlets pushing PR statements verbatim (alongside other problems) became a thing. Basically fewer journalists with more column inches to fill using syndicated pieces and barely editing them mean the same company release can appear across all the platforms with minimal contextualisation.