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All the 'news' that's fit to parrot
Over at BoingBoing, Dale Dougherty traces the genesis of a news story, in this case, retail sales numbers for 'Black Friday'. He shows how this story, which is communicated on every news media every year after Thanksgiving, starts with a press release based on very questionable market research methods from an industry trade group, and then gets repeated as fact by news media.
Posted by Stan Taylor on December 3, 2005 12:11 PM
Categories: Intellectual