Re: Other company names in your news releases

From: Tom Geller <tom_at_spamcon.org>
Date: Mon 15 Oct 2001 16:20:25 -0500

KIM BAYNE <editor_at_marketingwirelessly.com> WROTE:

>Sorry, but a real journalist doesn't reprint news releases
>verbatim.

Dave Barry wrote something about this. Paraphrasing from
memory:
 "There are two ways to be a journalist. You can dig and
  interview primary sources and follow leads and work
  long hours. Or you can rewrite press releases. Both ways
  pay the same."

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