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Pastimes : Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers
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To: Intrepid1 who wrote (4)4/27/1999 1:45:00 PM
From: Ellen  Read Replies (1) of 3795
 
You said:

In my dealings with Business Wire the only thing they ever bothered to verify was the credit card number.

and

It was a bona fide news release but Business Wire made not one effort to establish this fact. As I said all they were interested in was the money.

In my opinion Business Wire is just a whore news wire service. You give them a few hundred bucks and they'll give you a release.

What procedures do the Dow Jones and Reuters use to verify a story before releasing it?
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