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Thursday, 14 February 2013

TMZ milking the Pristorius story like there's no tomorrow


When news broke this morning that Paralympian Oscar Pistorius had shot and killed his girlfriend, every news outlet in the world scrambled to put out some kind of story no matter how sketchy the details.

In this new digital age of journalism, the trick is to be the first (among the first) to report and have the rest of the publications to cite you as the source and give you a back link and get your hit count soaring.  It's traffic first and news second.  TMZ has taken this story a step further:  after updating new information as it