[GOP_Raider]

FAIL

[GOP_Raider]

Ping!

[WakeUpAndVote]

[JennysCool]

Printing press releases nearly verbatim happens all the time in small-city newsrooms. It’s nothing devious — just plain laziness combined with time/column inches to fill.

[hoosiermama]

Oops!

[hoosiermama]

Is this in your area?

[Vigilanteman]

Years ago, I started out in college majoring in journalism. By my junior year, I figured out that I would either have to become a Kool-Aid drinking leftist or kiss a** big time to get anywhere in the business, so I change my major to Econ, so I could get a real job. I had to stay an extra semester to get a couple of classes I needed to complete my new major and found I only needed two classes more for a double major in journalism, so I did it.

I can tell you from personal experience that just about all journalism majors in that era (1979-81) as well as their related majors (notably English, writing) were hard-core lefties. Not only that, they were for the most part lazy and spent most of their week figuring out how they were going to get drunk or laid for the weekend.

It is hardly surprising that they would take a DNC news release and run it as a story. The most surprising part of such an episode is that they would take the time to rewrite it slightly to pass it off as original.

[mbarker12474]

I noticed a similar event last week in my local paper, the Fredericksburg VA Free Lance - Star. The story was essentially the claims of Democrats about a Republican. Not a press release, but it read as if the reporter simply called up the Democrat source, then regurgitated whatever he had to say.

[LADY J]

Thanks for posting this!! Guess the MSM will promote the RATS agenda in every way they can!!

So far, Obama's great ideas are putting the tax payer's on the hook for unemployment benefits extensions that could go on through eternity!!!