Readers of both the Western Daily Press and the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald could be forgiven for thinking they experienced a case of déjà vu yesterday.
The websites of the Trinity Mirror-owned Daily Press and the Newsquest-owned Gazette & Herald each carried the same story, word for word, about Wiltshire-based Polish murder suspect Piotr Kupiec, left, being extradited to his native country.
However, eagle-eyed readers may have spotted one little difference in the Gazette & Herald’s version – a link to the WDP story together with a promotional footer for the WDP’s social media channels.
The footer appears automatically when readers – or possibly even reporters from rival papers – copy and paste text directly from the WDP’s website.
Spot the difference – the WDP’s story, above, and the Gazette & Herald’s, below
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This is a story?
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Mike, I think it is a story. There’s a growing trend where I work for reporters from rival publishers thinking it’s acceptable to C+P paste stories from our site. It’s a disgraceful way to behave.
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Why not? I know there’s nothing unusual about papers nicking stories, but you’d expect a bit of a rewrite at the least, no?
Maybe just me…
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pitiful journalism is becoming acceptable.
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But newspapers have no problem with taking pictures free of charge off social media…………………so the logical next step is to take each others stories.
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