This is yet another example of publications, in this cast MarketWatch, takes press releases directly from the internet and redistributes them as ‘news’.
The results of this New York Law Journal’s Reader Rankings Survey is misleading (to say the least).
First off, they had less than fifty respondents.
Second, the survey was sponsored by the company in question, so of course the questions were skewed to provide results they were looking for so the could put this press release out.
For a news source to consider itself main-stream it must first stop reprinting press releases, they are nothing more than marketing tools and have no real news.
If it does want to use press releases for story ideas that’s fine, but it must take a few minutes to check the facts and then rewrite the release interjecting its own findings.
Be careful of what is being published as ‘news’… question everything, especially self-serving news stories which are really just marketing tools.
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