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reportage vs. press releases
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:16:00 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Scott Hazen Mueller <scott () zorch sf-bay org> Date: March 27, 2007 2:02:59 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: reportage vs. press releases Dave - For IP, if you wish.
[...] but Western newspaper reporters have been known to accept leads on stories from PR types -- in fact, I suspect it's common -- though they may domore actual work before the article sees print,
In point of fact, I had a CAUCE press release turn up verbatim in the New York Times, some years back. If I had known that was going to happen, I would have been a little more moderate in the remarks I was making about (now ex-)Senator
Frank Murkowski... -- Scott Hazen Mueller | zorch () cauce org or scott () zorch SF-Bay ORG Chairman and Founder, CAUCE (US); http://www.cauce.org/.Director and Founder, International Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
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