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Reuters: Stenography, Not Journalism

October 19th, 2009 4 Comments

If you thought news orgs like Reuters actually checked press releases rather than just cut and pasting, you would be wrong.

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4 Responses to “Reuters: Stenography, Not Journalism”

  1. jr says:
    October 19, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    Anything for access

  2. Buzz Killington says:
    October 19, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    They’re also the most infamous of the feuxtography pushers, I believe.

  3. Porlock Junior says:
    October 20, 2009 at 1:04 am

    Sounds a bit like a Yes Men stunt, but it doesn’t seem to have the outrageous bite of one of theirs.

    Can anyone see what “Hingo Sembra” would be an anagram of?

  4. cj says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:00 am

    @Porlock Junior- It was a Yes Men stunt. They even had a fake U.S. Chamber of Commerce press conference. I saw Rachel Maddow show earlier where she did a report on it. There’s video of the fake press conference at MSNBC.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/

    (note: you have to scroll down to video titled “Chamber of Commerce Punked”)