Recycling Industry
Source Material Insufficient for Publication
Feed item held only a headline link and no article text; publication deferred pending the full ABC News body copy.
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Source contained one headline attributed to ABC News and zero words of body copy
No tonnages, facility names, prices or deadlines were present in the feed item
Desk rules prohibit inventing numbers or quotes absent from the source
Story deferred until the resolved article URL supplies full text
The supplied source consists of a single Google News RSS redirect link carrying the headline "We're recycling but garbage keeps piling up: What you may not know about the recycling industry" attributed to ABC News, with no article text.
Under this desk's editorial rules, a story cannot be written from a headline alone. The strict instruction not to add information absent from the source, combined with the requirement for concrete figures — tonnages, plant capacities, commodity prices per tonne, permit deadlines, named companies and agencies — makes publication impossible without fabrication.
What does this change for Circular Wire?
Nothing is published. To produce the item, the desk needs the full ABC News article body, including any statistics, named facilities, regulatory references or quotations it contains. Once the complete text is supplied, the story will be rewritten to length and to house style under the byline Grace Kim.
Editors should re-run the pipeline against the resolved article URL rather than the Google News redirect, which does not expose body copy.
via Google News: Recycling industry (Source)
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