Monday, May 07, 2007

Ctrl-A Ctrl-C Ctrl-V ... and a few tweaks to change the flavor

Here's an article from the "Opinion" page in today's Jakarta Post (May 7, 2007):



And then once again in the front page of the "Business" section of the same edition:



Some facts:
  • The same article, word by word, appears twice in the same edition of the daily post.
  • The title has been tweaked a little: In the "Opinion" page it is: "Does Asia need a euro? It's a laughing matter". Whereas in the "Business" page it is: "Asia needs a euro? It's still a laughing matter, for now".
  • Certain words have been changed, for eg. "ASEAN" in one has been transformed to "Asean" in the other.
  • Name of the author, William Pesek, is unchanged. (Would have been more dangerous otherwise.) However, one mentions "Bloomberg News" to be the source, whereas the other just says "Bloomberg".
  • I could not find either of these in the online version of the newspaper.
  • Neither of the titles are perfect copies of the original Bloomberg, which says "Asia Needs a Euro? It's Still a Laughing Matter".

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