A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press releases.
There's a difference between journalists first learning about things through a press release, and the journalism actually just being PR, i.e. parroting PR rather than challenging or extrapolating upon it.
Yeah but using a press release as a source doesn’t mean the article is basically pr. You can get info from a press release and write a completely negative article about the topic for example.
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