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Every time I log onto Patsfans and scan the Globe-Projo sports headlines; it seems like I am reading the same paper with different editors.
How is it that they come up routinely with the EXACT SAME story ideas on the same day.
Today it is Gaffney. Both Young and Gasper (Projo & Globe respectively) write essentially the same story. 'Great find....consistent wr.... blah blah'
Is this symptomatic ....
A. That the PATS are giving the media a story line that they want the focus for the day to be?
B. That the reporters are colluding together, sharing sources and then end up with the same data to write from.... or even deliberately planning the same story?
C. That one starts writing the story and the other just routinely steals their idea or copies it and re-writes to prevent plagiarism charges?
I like to read the articles; but I start to wonder sometimes about whether there actually is anything but journalistic laziness out there anymore.
How is it that they come up routinely with the EXACT SAME story ideas on the same day.
Today it is Gaffney. Both Young and Gasper (Projo & Globe respectively) write essentially the same story. 'Great find....consistent wr.... blah blah'
Is this symptomatic ....
A. That the PATS are giving the media a story line that they want the focus for the day to be?
B. That the reporters are colluding together, sharing sources and then end up with the same data to write from.... or even deliberately planning the same story?
C. That one starts writing the story and the other just routinely steals their idea or copies it and re-writes to prevent plagiarism charges?
I like to read the articles; but I start to wonder sometimes about whether there actually is anything but journalistic laziness out there anymore.