It is even worse than that.

N&O editors are saying that this package from the AP fills its scarce A-front newshole better than anything else generated in-house.

If I were an N&O reporter I’d be really ticked off about that, not to mention embarrassed. Were I the publisher of the paper, I’d wonder why we are paying the AP scarce MNI dollars for such obvious crap — and why I hired those editors.

The N&O still has a local publisher, right?