“Even though this had the potential to seriously harm the most
important development in information technology (IT) — the
rise of open source software — almost no IT journalists
looked into it. The few that did tended to spend little time
looking at (or for) evidence. If journalists are simply
reorganizing press releases, there’s really no need for journalism,
is there?“…Traditional journalists may bemoan the loss of local
newspapers, but why should people pay for rehashed press releases
when the blogs are a more accurate and broader source of
information?”
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