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Bloggers create Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the steal-this-website dept.

mccalli writes "The BBC is reporting that certain bloggers, fed up of seeing their work just lifted by the mainstream press, have created The Press Plagiarist Of The Year award. Examples are given of national newspapers simply cutting and pasting entire articles from web sites and passing them off as their own."

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  1. Re:this is VERY serious! by Seumas · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And that, coming from a tard with '420' in his username.

    Oh, by the way - it's called "generalizing" because GENERALLY it's TRUE.

    Go back to the bong.

  2. Re:this is VERY serious! by croddy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    It may in fact seem that way to you, and to others out in the weblog echo chamber, furiously debating the future of itself, but try to keep in mind that to most of us, bloggers pretty much all sound the same -- and they sound pretty silly.

    Sure, the software is capable> of displaying whatever content it's given, but that hardly changes the fact that the vast majority of people who use that software tend to all say basically the same thing (with appropriate liberal or conservative frosting applied, of course).

    It certainly doesn't help bloggers' credibility that they seem to be quite addicted to coining new words and jargon, like "podcasting", "vorage", "blogroll", "mobjects", "blogosphere", "MSM" and so forth, usually using them in ways that betray no deeper motivation than to marginalize people who are not hip to their scene.

    No one has a problem with the software.

  3. Re:this is VERY serious! by cecil_turtle · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    bloggers pretty much all sound the same

    So, then you've read what, one or two blogs in your life? How do you think the content in blogs is any different than the content in books or magazines or in the news or the conversation you're going to have with your co-workers on Monday morning? Why do you think the medium defines the content? They are unrelated.

    Oh yes and all these newfangled jargon words I can hardly keep up. What are these "web" and "email" and "IM" things I keep hearing about? I wish people would stop coining these new words just so they can feel superior and to confuse me.

  4. Re:this is VERY serious! by hedge_death_shootout · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the crap (in 2005) has Christianity got to do with asking people if they enjoyed the universal, consumerist have-a-good-time-and-give-presents Christmas?

    PS: (fevered politically-correct delusions don't count)