It's b/c it's the NYTimes-- they actually do reporting & journalism. There's seems to be a lot of piggybacking/freeloading off of original reporting. I was inv

It's b/c it's the NYTimes-- they actually do reporting & journalism. There's seems to be a lot of piggybacking/freeloading off of original reporting. I was involved with a project that got a big splashy NYTimes write up and it was astonishing in the coming days to see how many joker press outlets basically crimped off the Times' original reporting. They'd include a link and all that but they'd lift the juciest quotes/content and the only thing they'd contribute was some usually sassy commentary. Here's a really vivid example-- great write up about Target detecting a pregnancy from purchase data: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h... It's a great little news nugget- provocative, interesting, yadda yadda. And then before you know it, all these "summary"/"reaction" stories get published which didn't exactly contribute much or move the ball down the field: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe... http://techland.time.com/2012/02/17/how-target-knew-a-high-school-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-parents/ http://techland.time.com/2012/02/17/how-target-knew-a-high-s... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102859/How-Target-knows-shoppers-pregnant--figured-teen-father-did.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102859/How-Target-k... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-target-exposed-a-teen-girls-pregnancy-2012-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-t... I'm not sure if this is a real problem or not, but it seems kind of lame that those other groups get to sit on their cans and pontificate while others get out of their offices.