It’s sorta interesting to watch how MSM reuses the stuff produced elsewhere without any additional value but when bloggers reuse stuff its some how very diabolical. Prime example:
Bloomberg in January claims that Jobs has to undergo surgery due to complications arising from cancer treatment.
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness.
Apple reiterates that Jobs will return in June.
“Apple Inc. co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs still expects to return from his medical leave at the end of June, according to an Apple director who responded to an investor at the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday,” Jordan Robertson reports for The Associated Press.
Since then every report on Jobs has been based on speculation and unsubstantiated rumors and unsourced “news”.
Even more glaring has been the fact that every report following last month’s Wall Street report and this past week’s WSJ article has found its way to a large number of prominent papers without any new insight or actual reporting. Hmm, I thought it was only the bloggers that did this. Some examples:
Merc:
Adding a new twist to the medical mystery surrounding the world’s most famous corporate executive, Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a liver transplant about two months ago, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Friday night.
The newspaper said Jobs, who is out on a six-month medical leave for an undisclosed illness, is recovering and is expected to return to work later this month as Apple has previously said, but that he may work part time for a while after his return.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs underwent surgery for a liver transplant two months ago in Tennessee, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal.
NYT:
The chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, who has been on a medical leave since January for treatment of what he called a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant two months ago at a hospital in Tennessee, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
The newspaper said doctors had advised Mr. Jobs to return to work as planned at the end of this month, but on a part-time basis. Mr. Jobs, through his wife, Laurene Powell, declined to comment on Saturday when reached at the couple’s home in Palo Alto, Calif.
SF Chron (via Mock, Paper, Scissors):
The good news is Apple CEO Steve Jobs is still on track to return to work by the end of this month. But it took a liver transplant surgery two months ago in Tennessee to enable his return, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The story, which was not attributed to any source, sheds considerable light on the state of Jobs’ health and recovery and strongly suggests that his bout with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 has expanded to his liver.
Of course, this is three of 300 similar reports that reported a “fact” that WSJ reported based on no sources at all. However, when bloggers do the same, its some theft of enormous proportions, but when “journalists” at newspapers do it, its journamalism.
