[IP] reportage vs. press releases

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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 do
> more 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...

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     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
          E-mail (iCAUCE); http://www.international.cauce.org/.



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