The NY Times published a piece today about how more & more newsrooms across the country are lifting their content from “upstarts” who might be less then trust-worthy then (heaven forbid) – the AP and Reuters.
They state: “Publishers and broadcasters have always called on freelance journalists. But a generation ago, if they used material from another organization, it was usually limited to a handful of large, well-known and respected ones like The Associated Press or Reuters. With established newsrooms shrinking, a raft of smaller news outlets have cropped up in the last few years, selling or simply giving news reports to the traditional media — groups like ProPublica, Global Post, Politico and Kaiser Health News.”

In other words, the NY Times can point out other newsroom-cash-for-stories-flaws all they want, as long as they avoid hiring reporters like Jayson Blair in the future…