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“New” AP Strategy Is Nothing New « The Scholarly Kitchen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:02:05 +0000

[...] even a year ago, the AP was attacking linking sites and aggregators. Now they’re joining them, but after ceding important clock time and yardage. And the game [...]

By: Richard Sever

Richard Sever — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:57:20 +0000

The mainstream media are on shaky ground here. In his provocative book Flat Earth News (recently reviewed in the London Review of Books), Nick Davies exposes modern journalists for what he terms “churnalism” – little more than recycling of press releases with little attempt at real information gathering. In the context of the ‘signaling’ function you refer to, ironically a blogger is probably more likely to include a link to and hence ‘credit’ an original research article.

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