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[bergie]

I've been told by PR people that 80% of the content in a newspaper or a magazine is written by PR agencies.

Then again, PR people have a strong commercial interest in making it appear so that only stories pitched by PR people get published.

My (few) experiences in getting stories through have been to the contrary, usually just journalists picking up something I blogged. An exotic example: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/on_usb_fingers_and_world_news/