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Press Release or Citizen Journalist Submission?
Posted by Steve Outing at 11:54 AM on Sep. 15, 2005
I get lots of e-mail, including plenty of press releases. Occasionally, I'll get "press releases" from individual writers who are sending out essays in hopes of someone picking them up, or writing about them. I got one of those today, about "falsified WWII history." The writer is an "editor and historian."

Now, that's not a topic relevant to what I cover, but I was intrigued with how this writer labeled his e-mail/press release: "Submitted as a CITIZEN JOURNALIST."
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