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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by fyi80 on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @01:22PM (#5596517)
This is a solved problem for journalists, and it is called "citing your sources". Either your source is anonymous and you give a good reason, or your source is cited.

When sources are not cited, we have PR or lies masquerading as journalism.

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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by SilasX on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @02:28PM (#5597008)
That'll be the day:

"According to a press release by [organization], '[entire rest of article]'."

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