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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by untog on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:09AM (#5595572)
Also, there's a certain irony in that this story itself almost certainly is "planted" PR.

Well, the Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit organisation, so it's certainly not quite the same as the article is describing.

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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by mseebach on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @11:34AM (#5595760)
Parroting PR from non-profits is no better than parroting PR from corporations. In neither case is "journalism" going on.

It is of course possible that the reporter in question has followed this topic closely for years and therefore has sources that told her about this service - conveniently timed so she can lead the piece with "Today the Sunlight Foundation unveils Churnalism".

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