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1. Jerry Reed...Revisited by Darrell Toney (reviewed 6/07) (5 Stars) Click title to purchase at CBD.com...click artist name to read Dave's Review. A CD will automatically fall out of the Top Eight after twelve months if no CD surpasses it before then.
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-----------May 28, 2007More On Cut And Paste NewsAnonymous sez: A copy and pasted press release is no different than a newspaper using an AP (associated pres) release. The purpose of a press release is to release as much info as needed that relates to the subject of the release. This may in turn influence news media to further pursue the subject or ellicit interviews on the subject. A correctly written press release is written so that it can be used as is if desired by the agency receiving it. That being said, a press release should at least be read before using. That, in and of itself, won't guarantee a simple mistake in wording from occuring. As Jeff Foxworthy might say on Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, "You just flunked out of school and you're going home with nothing." Well...perhaps we might go with some partial credit. It is true that a properly written press release provides facts (and usually some additional "background information" which I like to call "hype"). There's nothing wrong with that. Where I really differ with the statement above is the first sentence: A copy and pasted press release is no different than a newspaper using an AP (associated pres) release. In reality, the Associated Press is a non-profit entity owned by more than 1500 newspapers. I don't know if they're one of the part-owners or not, but I do know that my local newspaper can hardly afford to send their own correspondent to Iraq. They use stories written by AP reporters instead. My local paper DOESN'T print stories written by the US generals in Iraq. They don't use stories written by the remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime either. And they don't use stories written by someone being paid by US generals or remnants of Hussein's regime to say nice things. Fact: The AP has bureaus in nearly 100 countries. Fact: They send stories over the wire where news agencies can benefit from the legwork done by the AP reporters. Fact: AP actively campaigns for open government so they can pass correct information along to their readers. What the AP does is miles away from...TANGENT AHEAD...pardon the interruption...What the AP does is miles away from manufactured "news"...for example, so-and-so met with a popular songwriter at Starbucks in Nashville today to sip a quality, bean-based beverage and look over some lyrics they MIGHT possibly record in the future for a "record label"...this label is one of many that asks the artist to pay for all expenses up front, hence the quote marks around "record label"...we now return you to the sentence that began this paragraph, which is still in progress...may as well being a new paragraph... What the AP does is miles away from writing news about YOURSELF, and then seeing your own words reprinted in numerous media outlets. A true parallel for newspapers using AP feeds in the SG online world would be one website owner linking to an original story reported on another website (for example). This is fundamentally different from cut/pasted self-congratulatory prose posing under the guise of "news." LINK to original blog entry. Labels: Observations posted by David Bruce Murray @ 1:06:00 AM
 
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