Posted on 03/29/2006 7:25:15 AM PST by abb
By Robert Niles: Two stories this morning about large news organizations plagiarizing independent online media:
The first, related by King Kaufman at Salon regards an ESPN radio host ripping off a comedy bit from a sports blogger in Michigan.
Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story reports the second and (literally) more serious example. In Huffington Post, she writes that one of her investigative reports found its way into an Associated Press story, which did not attribute the information to her or to Raw Story. Alexandrovna writes:
"We contacted an AP senior editor and ombudsmen both and both admitted to having had the article passed on to them, and both stated that they viewed us as a blog and because we were a blog, they did not need to credit us."
Janet D. Stemwedel of ScienceBlogs.com summed the issue best:
"It doesn't matter whether the source is a professional journalist for a major media outlet or a small press, a writer for an online publication or a blog, or a student or private citizen. If you use their words or ideas, you must cite the source. Otherwise, you're committing plagiarism."
Any reporter stealing from Huffington Post deserves to be fired for idiocy, not plagiarism.
LOL.
This authour though, was alleging use of material from "Raw Story."
Who thinks Arianna Huffington has anything intelligent to say? If she still a conservationist, even after burning all of that fuel while flying around in a private jet?
These "reporters" only read left wing bloggers so they only steal from left wingers. Poetic justice in there someplace. : )
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