[ASC-list] Tracking lazy journalism
Charles Willock
charlesw at cse.unsw.EDU.AU
Thu Feb 24 11:16:45 UTC 2011
... following a post on the Forensic Linguistics list ...
The Media Standards Trust has launched a website to sniff out journalists
who cut and paste press releases:
http://mediastandardstrust.org/blog/ladies-and-gentleman-please-start-your-churn-engines/
http://churnalism.com/
FWIW, their 15 character minimum requirement isn't sufficient to guarantee
tracking uniqueness, but with a little care, searching for a slightly
longer string -- especially one containing a relatively low-frequency word
(play with Google to determine which are low frequency strings **) should be
quite fruitful.
Not sure how extensive their search is yet ...
HtH,
Charlesw
** - Olsson J [2004], 'Forensic Linguistics' Continuum. (Ch.8 Plagiarism)
"Creativity and innovation are measured not by what is done,
but by what could have been done ... but wasn't"
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