Does radio news rip off newspapers?
by Alicia C. Shepard This past summer, Peter Brush flipped on the radio while driving to work at Maryland’s Hagerstown Herald Mail. The newscaster was presenting a story about people running red lights. “I had just written a story about people running red lights,” he recalls. “Unless they had someone reporting who writes a lot like me, they were reading my story out of the newspaper.” Other print journalists insist their stories have also been read over the air without credit, leaving the impression with listeners that the station did its own reporting. While most do no more than grumble privately, two newspapers in Reading, Pennsylvania, earlier this year took the issue to court, alleging that a station had lifted stories without credit. Print reporters queried via the Internet seemed to shrug and sigh when asked about the practice, as if to say they’ve come to accept such theft as part of the game. A few even say they take it as a compliment. “Way back when I worked for a paper, I us
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