>>This is a tough one, Peter.
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>>The problem is that **now** "news" organizations - and I've seen it in newspapers and TV in particular - use publicity disguised as "press releases" (newspapers) or videos done by companies to look like a news item (TV). Apparently because they're cheap (free) and fill space/time.
>>I don't know that we have a commonly used word for that except 'fake news' maybe.
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>>I understand the term "recycling old news" to be mainly a tactic, particularly in politics, to try to renew "interest" in some old news item that served them well before.
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>Yes, it's this second type of news I'm referring to. Or actually, it's the type of news that is not news, because it are facts that have been publicized before. But it is not told in the news that the facts are old. Instead, it is suggested that it are facts that are discovered only recently.
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>In the Netherlands there is currently a controversy about Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A documentary about her unveiled that she has lied details about her history, in order to get asylum, in 1992. Many people are now incensed and some even want to undo the asylum. The fact is that she herself has told about those lies in many interviews in the past. In those days nobody was incensed.
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>The makers of the documentary have been suggestive and their hidden goal may be damaging her image.
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>This type of journalism. Do you know a good phrase for it? Is "recycling old news" a good reference in my article?

I don't really think that would be "recycling old news".
Seems a similar example is the 'Mohammed cartoon' affair, which I understand was a minor thing in Denmark but some Muslim cleric(?) worked very hard to raise its profile and, months later, succeeded.

Maybe you should look up "yellow journalism". Here's the first from Google:
Yellow journalism is a term given to any widespread tendencies or practices within media organizations which are detrimental to, or substandard from the point of view of, journalistic integrity. "Yellow journalism" may for example refer to sensationalized news reporting that bears only a superficial resemblance to journalism. Journalistic professionalism, as now understood, is the supposed antidote. Instead of "yellow journalism," media bias is a commonly-used misnomer..
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>>>A question to native English speakers:
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>>>In search of an expression that is used for 'news' that appears to have been news quite a long time ago, I have found the expression "recycling old news" on the internet. Is this the only expression for this type of news?
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>>>The type of news I'm referring to is the news that is publicized tactically asif it is really new. And only after some research it is discovered that it is not news at all. As to my knowledge there has been a topic here involving this type of news.
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>>>I need this info for a blog on my Dutch weblog.