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> A lot of news is just PR. It seems like the distinction between PR and news as content is clear though, and their conflation is from being published together
by singlepaynews 3y ago
> A lot of news is just PR.
It seems like the distinction between PR and news as content is clear though, and their conflation is from being published together
> News become part of history but I don't think history is the integral of old news.
Certainly not; so my mental model can be amended:
History ~= integration(old news + X)dt
And my question then is what to use as X?
- YZF 3y agoMy point was that what you think is news, is actually PR. You might have the image of journalists hard at work in the field gathering news, but most the news you get is actually not that, it's straight out PR. It is not someone observing something, it is some official body sending out PR to journalists. That can be the police, it can be a government, it can be companies, etc. It is published as "news" but is not what you think it is. I think your point is that some PR is officially PR but that's not what I'm talking about.