Two new books, published at the same time by the same publisher and with the same editor, try to examine why.
Traditional and social journalists have evolved to be pretty much the same thing, playing by the same rules, competing for the same stories and getting compensated by similar advertiser-based business models.
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Yes, they say, it replicates many of the former body's failures: with so many of the same states, often represented by the same people, sitting (literally) in the same seats, instant change could not be expected.
Because earlier reactors were jerry-rigged and covered in retrofits, every one of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors is different, even ones sitting on the same sites built by the same company and owned by the same utility.
"If someone is parking in Stroud one day and then going to Cirencester the next day, for example, they will see the same approach to parking, by the same people and in the same way, " the council spokesman said.
We have been spoiled by our home business market of more than 300 million people who speak the same language, largely embrace the same culture, abide by the same laws, use the same currency and have freedom of movement and disposable income.
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The final tests, just as the product is ready for market, are the field tests and it is very possible that the differences in coverage were not noticed because they were being tested as standalone devices and NOT against other devices in the same area by the same person.
During the course of conducting his study, Lyon found out about a second family with exactly the same disease, caused by the same mutation.
But all were sucked into the same economic abyss of the failed policies of the past -- the same policies, by the way, that Romney promises to repeat as president.
At the same time, by about the same margin, 52% to 30%, voters do not want to ignore the fiscal cliff.
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The controversial taxing of capital gains at the same rates as income was upheld by the same Constitutional Council.
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In fact, the entire industry could use the same three slides, the projections for which are made up by the same handful of industry analyst firms.
Despite the animosity, however, the most striking feature of the Senate contest is the extent to which it is animated by the same issues that dominate the presidential campaign.
The Dow jumped more than 100 points as the prepared remarks hit the tape, then fell by the same amount when Bernanke mentioned the possibility of tapering in the next two meetings, only to begin its upward trajectory again.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Berlin that there is speculation about whether the authorities were alerted to the German couple by the same person - whoever that may be - who told the FBI in the United States about the Russian spy ring uncovered there involving Anna Chapman.
Only a kilometre away from the hotel, the sinuous metal banisters of the Gudbrandsjuvet viewing platform were designed by the same architect as the hotel, Jensen and Skodvin.
Lauder is the chairman emeritus of the Estee Lauder Co. and son of the late cosmetics queen by the same name.
This is a real journal, published by BMJ, the publishers of the well-known journal by the same name (the British Medical Journal).
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Davies adapted "The Deep Blue Sea" from the 1952 play of the same name by Terence Rattigan as part of the centenary celebration of the late British playwright.
Some of the problems faced by women scientists in the Middle East are the same as those faced by women around the world.
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Questioned by moderators Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, who manage the technology blog by the same name, Cook seemed to hint that Apple may someday enter the "wearables" market, but declined to be specific.
If an astronaut wore an Omega watch, a consumer could identify with the adventure of walking on the moon by wearing the same watch.
The site was made by the same guy who taught the Google Python Class.
The second is described by the same Mr McCluskey in the Guardian today as "absolutely reasonable".
Although the drug was produced by the same company with exactly the same process as at a smaller scale, the FDA considered the larger-scale version to be a new product and even required that it adopt a different name.
The march in Chardon rekindled memories of the walk taken along the same route by grieving students as they returned to classes three days after the shooting.
He also would allow for a 5% increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income workers, a program the governor cut by the same amount in 2011.
After Cordaptive was rejected, Merck canceled a trial of the drug run by the same outside scientist--John Kastelein of the University of Amsterdam--who ran the Vytorin trial.
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