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For every link [we get] there are dozens of sites that outright steal our content with no attribution. Not just spam blogs, even the NYTimes does it. This isn’t a copyright issue – the stories are rewritten by actual people. But it’s far cheaper to simply take the news and rewrite it – if you can get away with it – than to hire people who do actual journalism.

Michael Arrington on TechCrunch re: The End of Handcrafted Content

…Having now worked in both broadcast news and web production, the regeneration of news by (re)writing copy is…disheartening — to say the least of the brain-suck it can be to one’s creative power. Maybe ‘brain-suck’ is too extreme, but it’s 1:33 a.m. I’m tired.

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