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What the hell.....?

Submitted by Alan Muller on Mon, 06/25/2012 - 7:53am.

This is a subject that gives me the creeps.  Seems that all the "rules" are changing all the time and nobody knows what they are....Is there a distinction being made between a gratituous blog post and a "sold" story for which fresh new product is expected by the buyer?

How do regurgitated press releases and wire-service copy, surely the stock-in-trade of most small "newspapers," fit into the picture.  How does official government and big-corporation propaganda, the stock-in-trade of "bigger" publications, fit it?  I vaguely recall being taught that plaigarism can be of thoughts and ideas as well as exact words.....

Alan Muller

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