Rewriting An AP Story Just To Show We Can
Michael Masnick,
TechDirt,
Aug 10, 2009
This item is fun because it dissects a news story to illustrate how easily it can be rewritten without violating copyright (contrary to AP's claims that the story cannot be rewritten). What really caught my eye, however, was how the facts in the rewritten story were referenced. Now that is an expectation for my items here or my articles, but let's face it, traditional journalists do not reveal where their facts come from (which is why they get away with inserting so many non-facts). It would be interesting to see news and especially magazine journalists held to the standards set by, well, bloggers like me. Or academic and educational writers in general.
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