May 8, 2009 1:21:22 AM
"In fact, it lines up nicely with a 2008 study that found 80 percent of quality UK newspaper content came from newswire or PR sources." The actual quote from the link you posted is, "Some 80 per cent of news stories in the quality UK national newspapers are at least partly made up of recycled newswire or PR copy, according to new research." By skipping the "at least partly made up" qualifier you distort your source to strengthen your argument. In addition, the study *included* the "quality" UK national newspapers. The recycled material in this subset of papers was less (52-69%). The details of this study are better explained here: http://is.gd/xF7Q. You do not detail how you determined originality making judgment of your comparison impossible. The standard for originality in the study you cite is that stories are not "wholly or mainly or partly based on information from pr departments or wire stories." This is a high bar for originality, please tell us how you determined the originality of a blog post. Do you still have access to all the PR copy and wire stories? You are correct stating, "To say that these bloggers only take content from other sources is obviously unfair." But the comparison to the Cardiff study weakens you case for taking blog journalists seriously due to the numerous avoidable errors I've mentioned.
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