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Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:11AM (#23324533)
Cool. It would be great to see the original (I never read the whole thing).

Most newspapers and magazines in the US have some kind of "fee-per-article" archival service. Some will allow unfettered access to their archives with a regular subscription, but others may ask a fee, even for subscribers.

NYT has its "TimesMachine": https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/ I'm not sure if it's available to non-subscribers. I am a subscriber, but I need to purchase page reprints.

Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment by BLKNSLVR on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:36PM (#23331973)
Crikey support got back to me and offered me this link:

https://www.crikey.com.au/topic/spinning-the-media/

There are a lot of articles listed, but if you scroll down there will be a clump that are actually entitled "spinning the media" all of which are dated in March 2010, which are all the parts to their 'special investigation'.

This article is almost directly relatable to the topic of this thread: https://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/25/spinning-the-media-pre-...

(and it's from 2010 - we've had a decade of normalization between that article and the one that initiated this thread!)

P.S. No paywall!

Re:Local TV stations pushed the same Amazon-scripted segment by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:18AM (#23335146)
Awesome! Thanks!

That is quite a collection!