Re:More News Is Being Written By Robots
by thesehands on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:46AM
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There's a good Chrome extension called churnalism that alerts you when stories on news sites you read appear to be copy pasted from other news sources or wikipedia
Both this and the parent. The local rag Tue New Zealand Herald, which is arguably the national paper publishes stories that have a headline you click on. It expands. The story is the headline - the headline text
is repeated. Its awful. They are even too slack to remove American spellings (it's supposedly a New Zealand paper) or convert US dollar values into local currency, both things a script could do fairly easily. Here is an example, it's sad.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&object...
A lot of news sites operate essentially by expanding wire service copy.