Feed republishing ... via print media?

I have blogged before about RSS feed republishing, but now it seems to have invaded the print media!

mX is a free (ie. advertising funded) newspaper that is given out for free to commuters on their way home in Melbourne and Sydney. DB from TramTown tells me that it used to be called Melbourne eXtra but was renamed for the launch into Sydney.

I intentionally avoid taking one because I try to avoid as much trashy journalism as possible, but it's full of pictures so I can't help noticing some of the stories in my fellow commuters' copies.

And today I realised why the stories always look so familiar - they are copied straight off Boing Boing!

Obviously many "human interest" stories are widely carried, but it's pretty wierd that on the same day that boing boing has a story on kit cars from japan, mX has the same story. On a previous occasion I saw an mX with a story on a cool Japanese transport robot that boing boing had shown on the same day. Now I understand the allure since I also linked to the boing boing story but then I'm not pretending to be a real newspaper.

mX has no online edition, so I'll have to start taking a copy to check myself. If I find more instances I'll scan them in and post them.