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Had the same experience myself - except sometimes I have exploited it, dishing up PR copy that lazy journalists can use verbatim or adapt, according to how quickly they want to get down to the pub. Most of this was in music/record reviews. Overworked local papers in particular were happy to use them. It's a form of syndication.

Never had the experience of having stuff become an issue, but I've seen it happen or heard about it from journalists who used to hang out at the same clubs in my partying days.

The phenomenon is stronger these days simply because cut and pasting is so easy. Back then, you had to OCR someone else's print copy or rewrite. (Journalist typing speeds were faster then)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sat Jan 17th, 2009 at 11:16:28 AM EST
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That and the fact that newsies are being tasked with filling up ever more pages of news (because more pages of news translates into more pages of ads...) on less and less time.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat Jan 17th, 2009 at 01:50:45 PM EST
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