Will The Internet Hurt The Market For Recycled Stories?
from the too-simple dept
In the past we’ve poked fun at news organizations for basically stealing stories from other news organizations and rewriting them for their own purposes. It isn’t plagiarism, per se, but it doesn’t always seem right. In fact, some of the larger news organizations are guilty of it more often than some smaller ones. Now, Mark Glaser is wondering if the intenret will slow down that practice. With so many people out there scouring news from all over the place, it’s much easier for people to find and compare related stories – and to point out their similarities. This makes it less appealing for some news organizations to work with “recycled” pieces – even if they take a slightly different view on the news. I’m not so sure this will happen. After all, people have been able to find the recycled articles for ages already, and it really hasn’t slowed down any of the news organizations very much. They seem to chalk up the “complaints” as being from overzealous news junkies – when their core audience is less likely to care.
