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Indeed, it is well known amoungst lecturers and academics in the field of journalism that there that this is a huge and growing problem. They do try to warn the students that they are training that this is they way the world of the scribe is going.

Most of it is attributed to the practices of the media and Newspapers themselves. They hire far fewer people than they used to and expect them to produce HUGE amounts of copy daily. With fewer people they have to use less money to pay out to staff (no surprise the Times is a top offender, Rupert Murdoch is a big joke). The same goes for on-air media - with the advent of 24 hour news little time is left for research, and they all want to be "first!" with a story. They just report what they are given.

When expected to produce the amount of stories that they are it is almost inevitable that staff resort to just parroting what they are given. Not saying it is right.

Anyway, Clarence Mitchell will be well aquainted with this. He will definitely use it to his advantage and put out ready to print press releases.