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Re:CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Ma... by kube-system on Friday September 27, 2024 @04:46PM (#41675368)
Major US newspapers in the 21st century did. But regardless, many of them were opaque in nature. "Via AP" may check the box of attribution but is lost on a reader of average literacy.
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Re:CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Ma... by xbar on Friday September 27, 2024 @05:46PM (#41675871)
Newswires were well understood entities for all newspaper readers for more than 100 years.
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Re:CNN and USA Today Have Fake Websites, I Believe Forbes Ma... by sokoloff on Saturday September 28, 2024 @08:47AM (#41679911)
That’s giving an awful lot of credit to “all newspaper readers” there.

Certainly as a kid/teen, I didn’t understand it; I suspect plenty of adults didn’t either.

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