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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by marcosdumay on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:54PM (#5863044)
> I don't think men in suits with dark glasses popped into NYT offices with a pre-written story in hand.

Funny thing is that they probably did. They get there every day, with pre-written stories from several different sources. You can hire them for some $10k a month if you want. (I'm just not sure that they use suits.)

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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by Ygg2 on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @01:15PM (#5863208)
True. I remember when Newswipe had a story on how news are made. It's not a pretty story. From their tales, most reporters don't report, but pay PR firms to pretty much write the article for them.

The articles are probably indistinguishable from real reports for most audiences, so reporters lap it up like milk. I mean why write, when you can pay someone else to write them for you?

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