Page Six Serves Up Sloppy Seconds
What is the deal at Page Six? Once again, they are falling back on old habits; recycling old stories that have already been published. Jason Blair was a plagiarist, but at least he didn’t repeat the same thing…over and over and over and over. Even Adnan Hajj, resident photo manipulator at Reuters, does not publish the same doctored photos again and again and again. And again.
I offered Page Six to intern for them this summer. For free! Richard told me there is no NEED for an intern. No need? Dude, you just printed the same freaking thing on Sunday and then on Tuesday.
So, when do I start?
(Notice how the copy is slightly altered. At least something was new! So is the pic!)
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September 19th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
[…] I was certain I had read the same exact story, not too long ago. In fact, my hunch was that this had appeared in a previous Page Six column. The fact that Page Six may have “accidentally” reprinted an old story was not news to me. I used to notice this all the time. This summer, thanks to my blog, I was able to blog about the Page Six Recycling Department. […]