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> low key reporting work by writing articles from press releases That is not journalism. It is the opposite of journalism.
by wpietri 4y ago
> low key reporting work by writing articles from press releases
That is not journalism. It is the opposite of journalism.
- elorant 4y agoI didn't said journalism, I said reporting. A lot of the stuff in news outlets are copies of press releases.
- wpietri 4y agoI think "reporting" is a term without an agreed definition outside of journalistic context. But I'd be happy to argue that it isn't reporting either. I agree that there are plenty of outlets that might qualify as news-shaped, or perhaps news-flavored. They might use AI-rewritten press releases. E.g., CNET's private-equity slide into untrustworthiness. But these things are basically parasitic on actual journalism. So although this is technically a use case for ChatGPT, it's a societally negative one.