It's practically theft when writing about already reported news stories. Because most people who do it, will simply copy and paste directly or put them into an article spinner to change it up a bit.

The hardest thing to do is the research to do a full commentary on every single situation there is. The other problem is with the type of story reported. If there's a tragedy in the neighborhood or something like it, you'd have to do some real investigative work to find out anything you can about the background or the neighborhood.

But again, no one should get involved in some of those stories because it's just resonates to dark with others in the area and you'd have to hassle them for nothing but information that investigators are already dealing with. They practically own it.

I guess if I want to get a news story somewhere, I'm going to have to go door to door to find it. That's kind of like the old school reporter way of doing things. Just like when I was (trying to) sell my eBook last week.