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
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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...