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| Subject: Frankenstein news: the phenomena of habitual recycling Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:18 pm | |
| ... The ethnographist Andrew Duffy, of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, has observed at firsthand how journalists are more reliant on secondhand news. Techniques of “curation” and “aggregation” are in the ascendancy at the expense of independent reporting. But while journalists have always borrowed and copied – it’s not called the “press pack” for nothing – our research indicates that the newer “alt-media” titles are abandoning independent reporting in favour of critiquing material that has been gathered by others. All perfectly legal, of course, under the long established concept of “fair dealing.”
http://theconversation.com/how-new-media-recycles-the-mainstream-press-105459 |
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