Glenn Reynolds's latest Foxnew.com article, about how activist press releases tend get recycled and regurgitated in huge unseemly chunks by the mainstream media, is a corker. Lots of amusing anecdotal examples, including this one:
an apparent plagiarism scandal at two California newspapers was resolved when it turned out that the two columnists who published identical columns hadn't copied each other — they had both simply copied their columns word-for-word from the same press release. Oh, said the editors. That was OK.
More and more people are catching on to this sort of thing, and it may explain why the reputation of traditional media organizations continues to slide. For while they continue to claim that liberal bias is a myth, an amazing amount of what traditional media groups do comes straight from the fax machines of left-leaning advocacy groups. As long as that's the case, their claims to exercise unbiased editorial judgment are going to ring very hollow.
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