Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism has a new study out that examines what makes up "the news." They looked at all the outlets that produced local news in Baltimore from July 19-25, 2009 and then studied the movement of six major news narratives from that week. The results are dramatic:
- 80% of stories are just repackaged information published elsewhere
- 63% of news stories were initiated by government officials
- 95% of the stories that did contain new information came from newspapers
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