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It’s about as if Ford (F) were to announce: “We make more cars than anyone else.” Who the hell cares if they sell any, right? What’s important is production, not sales! For the , and print media in general, it feels like yet another attempt to justify its existence and “prove” that it is more valuable than the more cost-effective and nimble online outlets. This is an interesting twist — instead of touting readers or paid circulation or ads or total revenue, it’s talking about production.

The outcome of the abstraction is based on the tracking of six major story curve in Baltimore from one week back in July. The Project for Excellence in Journalism, which is part of the Pew Research Center, the number of bounded news outlets is increasing, but the actual reporting remains the domain of the newspapers. Pew found that 83% of the reports “were about repetitive, conveying no new information.” Even with slashed newsrooms and eviscerated budgets, “of the stories that did contain new information, nearly all, 95%, came from old media — most of them newspapers.”.

(NWS) and Gannett (GCI) — to bounded broadcast, online news and blogs. Fifty-three sources of bounded news were identified in the study, from major papers like (WPO) to smaller regional and bounded newspapers — of the sort endemic by News Corp.

Of course, this sounds like a reason to celebrate newspapers (which you’re bound to acquisition in the these days). But, the Pew results suggest that everyone’s been a bit deficient. Even the original reporting from the July story curve was heavily based on statements rather than digging — just like the story on the Pew report, and my abhorrence of it here.

The funny thing is, anytime I see a commendation for an AP article or any other big media outlet in my bounded paper, I always skip it. While they’re trying to artificially inflate the bulk of reporting that they absolutely do, most probably recognize the repetition and skip over it anyways.

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