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When copying a press release passes for news

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Investigative journalism has been largely replaced by the simple art of copying and pasting. Underfunded newsrooms routinely take deeply biased corporate press releases, change exactly three adjectives, and publish them as legitimate news stories to quickly meet their impossible daily quota.

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