You May Already be a Winner

If the scandal of manufactured news in Iraq wasn’t embarrassing enough to journalists, how about checking out the NewsUSA Editor’s Rewards program (from one of America's favorite news-for-hire firms) to cap it off? Listen up, overworked editors. Here’s a surefire way to improve your home AND cut down on inconvenient toiling at the office simultaneously!

NewsUSA offers, “a qualitative and cost-effective alternative to traditional media advertising campaigns…the nation’s premier news feature placement service receiving millions of media impressions each day”

NewsUSA has announced that editors from real newspapers, “can now send us published NewsUSA features for points to earn towards prizes like any of the prizes shown plus hundreds more!”

In exchange for running NewsUSA features wholesale, these lucky editors will win valuable prizes, like:

GE Refrigerator
Weber Genesis Gas Grill
Portable DVD Player

So step right up! Win a prize! Fill your news space with dreck from NewsUSA. You could already be a winner!

But don’t forget, there ARE rules:

“NewsUSA "Snips" may not be edited and must run as-is in your publication to count as one (1) clipping. "Snips" are shortened versions of NewsUSA features that we publish only in our NewsUSA hard copy tabloid.”

So let’s be ethical, OK?

Many thanks to Poynter Online

UPDATE- ...and if this isn't enough for one day, Digby reports on the FEMA "Recovery Channel" ...it's about what a great job they've been doing in New Orleans...

Comments

[mediaman]

Thank you for mentioning our free service to editors and webmasters who may not have the budgets to buy copy, yet want great consumer editorial for their readers. www.newsusa.com
The Editor Rewards program was slightly mischaracterized by you..let me clarify...
We have over 4,000 newspapers using our free service and 18 years history.
This year the 2 national clipping services merged..we felt we would allocate the $2/clipping to reward editors that are using us to send copies of those missing tearsheets...
I doubt $2 would get any editor to run copy that doesn't help serve his readers. Our copy is in Associated Press Style and color photos and free. See for yourself newsusa.com and then see why our copy is better than copy editors and webmasters used to pay for.

[Bill]

mediaman- I'm glad to hear that I only slightly mischaracterized your free service. Thanks for clarifying everything.

Our Mayor only spent $103 per vote winning re-election here in NYC and he thought that was a reasonable amount per person too.

...by the way, tell me about the following excerpt:

"In exchange for running NewsUSA features wholesale, these lucky editors will win valuable prizes, like:

GE Refrigerator
Weber Genesis Gas Grill
Portable DVD Player"

..expecting alot of $2 referrals?