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Shadow Footprints

Wanderings in Virtu and Verity.

Monday, June 28, 2004

News, or Press Release?

In The New Zealand Herald today we get an example of investigative journalism.

Auckland downtown supermarket opens.

A press release from Progressive Enterprises (owner of Foodtown) wouldn't have included the human interest bits, and would have omitted the most important news, the news that warranted the photograph, that Carlos Spencer, an All Black, owns a coffee shop in the same building.