The Missing Someone

All the News That’s Fit to Imitate?*

apparently there is not enough news to go around. twice already this week someone has brought to our attention similar articles being published in different papers by different writers. the first standard comes to us from former fishbowlny’er neal ungerleider who points out that both usa today and the times of london ran precise similar pieces on iraq’s newly revived heavy metal music scene, two weeks apart. the usa today article ran on oct. 30 while the times piece ran more than two weeks later on nov. 16. as neal points out, it’s understandable that the two would blanket the changeless in any case, but curious that they bring up the unmodified sources, also this paragraph rings awfully similar:usa today: cranny of the two-hour show, the mob thrashed about, a sea of sweating bodies and banging heads.

Times of London: Sweating fans thrashed, writhed and banged heads. Heavy metal was back, alive and kicking, in Baghdad.Meanwhile! Peter Feld points out similarities between The Atlantic’s story on the Obama girls choosing a school, and the one that ran a week later in the New York Times‘ this weekend (Jeff Goldberg noted it also).

*We are sort of imitating Feld’s hed here.

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