When newspapers provide free advertising for their own reporting staff
The reporter had previously been hired by The Oregonian to cover this story.
On Sunday, March 19th, this is the #1, “top of the fold” story on their web site.
The story content printed by the Oregonian adds nothing new to the original reporting – it is a free advertisement for the author’s new book and tells us that the author will be at Powell’s City of Books on May 7th to talk about her book.
This is a fricken’ free advertisement – not a news report.
This is Journalism, 2023:
Reporter and author Roxanne Asgarian uncovers the grim history of the six adopted children in her new book, “We Were Once a Family,” which highlights the disturbing failures of the child welfare system.