Buried deep in this month’s Harper’s Index was a startling factoid:
Chances that a story in a British newspaper is a reprinted or rewritten press release: 3 in 5
While developments in the European media world often migrate to the U.S., I sincerely hope this isn’t one of them. Though given the delapidated state of U.S. dailies, it probably either already has or will in the very near future.