New York Observer
Gail Shister wasn't impressed by the Wall Street Journal's recent
Katie Couric "scoop." "I didn't see anything new," says the TV critic, who wrote a similar story a year earlier.
John Koblin writes: "Reporters and editors say they're noticing an increasingly changed dynamic where more stories with little fresh news are getting packaged with strong placement. We'll call it fake news: stories that are driven by speculation, or a rehashing of collected detritus that was already circulating among blogs and the gossip mill on a reporter’s beat."
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