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Why are some bloggers accusing Glenn of ‘taking content’ without attribution?
The Blaze ^ | April 18, 2011 | Scott Baker

Posted on 04/18/2011 1:15:00 PM PDT by Kaslin

>I am Editor-in-Chief of The Blaze today in large part because I was a blogger who did stories that Glenn Beck featured on his radio and TV shows.

Before joining the Beck team I always found, of all the shows and sites in the wide world of web news, that Glenn was the most generous in terms of saying thank you, of giving credit, and of making mention on air when possible. He’s promoted (and even hired) and amazing number of bloggers and writers.

So it’s through that lens that I look at the claims in a new story posted by The Daily Caller that is a collection of accusations that Glenn gives insufficient credit to stories turned up by a variety of bloggers and websites.

I certainly understand the frustrations of any writer or blogger who feels their contributions are being slighted. It’s happened to me hundreds of times!

At The Blaze we link and cite hundreds of news and blog sites each week. It’s been a major part of Glenn’s push to do just that.

Later today I’ll have a much more detailed response to the charges and what may be motivating them (is this connected to our review of James O‘Keefe’s NPR video?). Check back here in a few hours.

We are amused that Glenn is accused (in a factually-flawed way) of co-opting the phrase, “The Truth Has No Agenda” from his friend Mike Opelka. Mike is indeed a writer for The Blaze (as the article notes), but has worked collaboratively on projects with Mike since the 1980′s — indeed Glenn was the best man in Mike’s wedding. More on that later too!

In the meantime, here is a quick montage we put together of Glenn promoting the work of various blogs in the past year or so:


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KEYWORDS: attribution; beck; citation; glennbeck
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To: tysonbam

Did you read the article?


21 posted on 04/18/2011 3:29:48 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: unspun

Go read post 18. By the way, how is pushing for bloggers to post their work in full (Which is what HG does) crippling FR?


22 posted on 04/18/2011 3:30:30 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: humblegunner
I'm hardly unbiased and should not be involved in the vetting process.

Your honesty made me laugh.

I'll try to let you know who I think are the good ones and pass the ammo on the bad ones.

23 posted on 04/18/2011 3:33:57 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: unspun; humblegunner

And overlord.


24 posted on 04/18/2011 3:35:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Kaslin

I read the DC article and this one. You should always give credit where credit is due.


25 posted on 04/18/2011 3:47:37 PM PDT by tysonbam
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To: unspun
E.g., Beck utters "Cloward-Piven" a lot. When has he ever uttered "James Simpson?"

Why should he? James Simpson was a Canadian

26 posted on 04/18/2011 3:52:16 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin
E.g., Beck utters "Cloward-Piven" a lot. When has he ever uttered "James Simpson?"

Why should he? James Simpson was a Canadian

Not hardly. All American.

James M. Simpson, who published, Sept. 28, 2008,
"Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis."
The Cloward-Piven expose' on Obama, Soros, ACORN, and comrades

27 posted on 04/18/2011 7:43:03 PM PDT by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu... | We are Gulag Bound)
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To: Larry Lucido; humblegunner

If JR actually thinks that way (which would be a big shame).


28 posted on 04/18/2011 7:45:01 PM PDT by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu... | We are Gulag Bound)
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To: unspun
If I wanted to disrupt and cripple FreeRepublic.com (and therefore hurt the conservative, Americanist movement) I would likely do essentially, what he does.

Yes, prompting bloggers to post the full content here is a definite plot to disrupt and cripple Free Republic.

29 posted on 04/18/2011 8:27:20 PM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: unspun
Oh, and it's cute the way you ping Jim when you cry about being called out for blogpimping.

You were the little girl on the playground that always ran to tell teacher, weren't you?

30 posted on 04/18/2011 10:15:14 PM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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To: humblegunner; Jim Robinson
Oh, and it's cute the way you ping Jim when you cry about being called out for blogpimping.

Try to stick around the truth, humblegunner. No one was calling me out for "blogpimping."

I am calling you out. And if Jim Robinson agrees with you, I am calling him out.

If he jumps the shark over bloggers, that will be a big shame, but it will be his problem.

31 posted on 04/18/2011 11:44:36 PM PDT by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu... | We are Gulag Bound)
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To: Kaslin

So much for the 40 day challenge. The DC article really show the blatant theft of writing and research. What a phony.


32 posted on 04/19/2011 12:16:27 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: unspun
I am calling you out.

For what? Disliking blogpimps?

Well, you got me. Guilty as charged.

I think blogpimps are scum.

Using Free Republic as a free advertising platform is deplorable.
If a blogger has written something, he can post it here.

You just go ahead and cry to teacher all you wish, sob and
complain about the fact that mean old humblegunner doesn't like
blogpimps. I'm sure this will be news to everyone.

33 posted on 04/19/2011 12:32:56 AM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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