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Forget the snowman — build an igloo

December 26, 2024September 10, 2009

Jay Rosen at PressThink came up with a funny tweet last week: It’s a clever way of pointing out that journalists are spending way too much time on stories that people can get anywhere — for free — on the Internet. The lesson here is that the media need to stop making so many snowmen …

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