Comments on: Thank heavens for Product of the Year! http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/01/22/thank-heavens-for-product-of-the-year/ wake up and smell the copy Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: handolio http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/01/22/thank-heavens-for-product-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-136 handolio Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:00:29 +0000 http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/01/22/thank-heavens-for-product-of-the-year/#comment-136 Wow - it seems it was such a good bit of journalism that the organisers of Product of the Year 2008 have reproduced it verbatim in <a href="http://www.productoftheyear.co.uk/pdf/POY2008.doc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this press release</a> (opens doc file). It seems outrageous to me that an organisation could package an original item of news as a press release in this way - it's not as if the two are interchangeable, and trying to pretend otherwise just dilutes the value of journalism. I wonder if Thats [sic] News know? Wow – it seems it was such a good bit of journalism that the organisers of Product of the Year 2008 have reproduced it verbatim in this press release (opens doc file).

It seems outrageous to me that an organisation could package an original item of news as a press release in this way – it’s not as if the two are interchangeable, and trying to pretend otherwise just dilutes the value of journalism.

I wonder if Thats [sic] News know?

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