Recycling News or Something Like News, Anyway

Verizon (one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world) and Associated Press (one of the big names in news gathering) delivered an article to my desktop about a new "chastity" club at Princeton University in an article called, somewhat obviously, New Club Promotes Chastity at Princeton. The time stamp on the article is October 13, 2005, at 3:24:24 EST, but the dateline carries no date and the year the article was written in is not mentioned. However, it does not have to be read very closely to determine that the "New" in the headline is not entirely accurate. Rebecca Santana, the author, writes that the club was formed "about a year ago." Santana also mentions that the club was mentioned in "article in the university newspaper last February."

So even if it is interesting, it is not new. The mighty AP has been scooped by a student paper. And Verizon's contribution? The photo, credited to Tim Larsen/AP Photo, does not load. And the link to the club on the Princeton University website does not work.