The launch of Churnalism.com this week – and the Larry the Cat Facebook hoax with which Chris Atkins fooled the Daily Mail and BBC Radio Norfolk – have been met with a bit of a bristly snort from a few hacks, and it’s pretty understandable. Hands up, all journalists who are absolutely certain they’ve never copied and pasted a press release that might, on reflection, have been a bit whiffy . . . anybody . . . no? No. We’ve all been there. There but for the grace of God, and all that.
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