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Every syndicated story had a byline indicating syndication.

• hedora 2y ago
  Yeah; and they were generally extremely high quality.
  • mike50 2y ago
    40 years ago maybe. Now it's written to a 5th grade level and bloated with explain like I'm five filler.
• kube-system 2y ago
  Major US newspapers in the 21st century did. But regardless, many of them were opaque in nature. "Via AP" may check the box of attribution but is lost on a reader of average literacy.
  • xbar 2y ago
    Newswires were well understood entities for all newspaper readers for more than 100 years.
    • sokoloff 2y ago
      That’s giving an awful lot of credit to “all newspaper readers” there. Certainly as a kid/teen, I didn’t understand it; I suspect plenty of adults didn’t either.
• x0x0 2y ago
  This was not used to commingle authority vs the stories they reported themselves, and is in no way comparable to what cnn is doing, ie leveraging their site rank to juice traffic to trash content for ad dollars.