In its right of reply The Northern Star pleaded newness to the position of the Sunday Chief of Staff as the main cause of the no~no of publishing - a supplied press release passed off as reporting.
Now this CoS may be 'new' to his current position, but he has been a Northern Star journalist at least since 2006 (before that editor of the Rivertown Times since about 2003) and definitely would have known the paper's basic editorial policy.
I doubt whether Media Watch would have gone as softly on the newspaper if it had known that it was discussing "churnalism" approved by a seasoned journalist and editor and not by an implied young, wet-behind-the-ears CoS.
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