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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by guelo on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @06:09PM (#5598306)
The only way it should be acceptable is if the journalist writes "the company said X but they stand to make money off of it and I have not verified it."
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Re:Is It Journalism, or Just a Repackaged Press Release? Her... by Pwnguinz on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @09:04PM (#5599013)
I used to think that, until I read this: http://www.zerohedge.com/content/zero-hedge-conflictsfull-di...

In particular:

  | The reality is, critical readers should read analytic 
  | posts and the rest of Zero Hedge* with the blanket 
  | assumption that the author is totally "conflicted."  
  | (Phrased more logically, that the author stands to 
  | benefit from being right--imagine that).
* Replace "Zero Hedge" with "News Site", "Blog", etc.
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