Reply #65: I had a producer one time who called it "The Cincinatti Rewrite."

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My apologies to any and all DUers from Cincinatti - no offense meant. This fellow I worked for called it that. To him (never did find out why - some veiled reference from him to the way some folks did it in some newsroom in Cincinatti where he worked. What it referred to was a lazy newswriting technique - where you basically copy, word for word, somebody else's A-wire copy or script or press release. You don't rewrite it, at all. You justs regurgitate what's already written and merely stick your own name on it.

Again, my apologies to Cincinatti-area DUers.