February 13, 2004, 12:38 AM ET
Wire-story disclaimer at cbs2.com
Los Angeles' cbs2.com does something interesting with wire content. It displays this disclaimer above AP stories (example):
In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
Though it's unintentionally harsh toward the AP (as pointed out by Lost Remote), the notice is not a bad idea.
If you're going to give your site's readers the same regurgitated wire stories they can find at any Web site that regurgitates AP copy, you might as well come clean about the regurgitation.
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