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| Newspaper plagarizes blog, Editor admits it happens all the time |
| 2009-04-04 |
| An otherwise boring sports story, one of those internet flash in the pan things. Newspaper copies & pastes from a blogger and has a national hit story. Blogger complains and gets this response: [my bold] Dave, We had a copy of the email from another parent, but apparently copied the version from your site without credit. That was a mistake and we apologize for that. We should have used our own copy. If it's any consolation, this kind of thing happens to us often. We don't like it, which is another reason we should have been more careful. AP picked up the story from us, which is we you're seeing the credit on other sites. The LA Times and other sites credited the Herald. So, according to the editor himself, the practice is widespread. Wonderful. And these are the newspapers that everyone is supposed to band together and support during our hour of need? |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #1 If I see... "Phuech Barry and the horse he rode in on" in the Atlanta Constipation one more time, well I, I, I, I'm gonna SUE! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-04-04 12:18 |