plagiarism by media

Are news organizations allowed to do this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110211/hl_nm/us_alcohol

If not, is there any ‘code of conduct’ or ‘code of ethics’ for them in Pakistan?

Re: plagiarism by media

its not only geo...the same news is on msnb, irishtimes, globalnews and a lot more, just google it.

and because its from "reuters" news agency, to which most of these papers/ media groups subscribe to, its all good and i think its legal to copy paste

Re: plagiarism by media

true. my bad.