Re: It's complicated
Submitted by Spiro on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 3:08pm.

Anonymous Source wrote:
A TV/radio writer pulling a story off the AP wire may not even realize that it's original to the Oregonian.

That's part of the worthlessness of AP. They'll run stories a full day after they show up in the Oregonian. There's no excuse for that, or for a TV or radio station running it, particularly when the story is often merely a followup to a news release or an event like Sam Adams' City Club speech Friday. The right thing to do is, if you run a story based on reporting by the Oregonian or other source, you attribute it--although my experience is that the courtesy is virtually never reciprocated.

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