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Press Should Be Paid For Stories BBC Lifts
- The Guardian, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:57 PM
The Commons culture, media and sport select committee's hearing on the future of the corporation was told on Tuesday that local newspapers often found their stories repeated on BBC outlets without attribution. The president of the Newspaper Society, Adrian Jeakings, told MPs that "unconstrained commercial expenditure by the BBC could if taken to its limit wipe out the local press".
