Bloggers create Press Plagiarist Of The Year Award

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."

Comments

this is VERY serious!

[yagu]

I absolutely agree! Here's my take on it:

Lots of people have been taking this very seriously, well media studies students are taking this seriously. Earnest discussions in academia are all very well, but who are the guilty ones? Let Guido remind you of the nomination criteria: a story has to be pinched from an original blog source, either verbatim or in essence, and no credit / payment given to the original source. This qualifies as plagiarism. Similar stories on subjects eliciting similar comments do not pass this test, since even lazy journalists can have the same ideas as brilliant bloggers.

But...

[sloths]

You just pasted that entire headline straight from the article!

I agree, too!

[Anonymous Coward]

This is MY take on it:

Lots of people have been taking this very seriously, well media studies students are taking this seriously. Earnest discussions in academia are all very well, but who are the guilty ones? Let Guido remind you of the nomination criteria: a story has to be pinched from an original blog source, either verbatim or in essence, and no credit / payment given to the original source. This qualifies as plagiarism. Similar stories on subjects eliciting similar comments do not pass this test, since even lazy journalists can have the same ideas as brilliant bloggers.

Of course ... it's so clear now

[Bombula]

So THAT'S what people mean when they say, "I researched it online."

Bloggers stole the stories -- with a time machine!

[coyote-san]

How can you say that about journalists? PROFESSIONAL journalists, as they will quickly insist?

Obviously the bloggers have stolen the stories from the mainstream media, then traveled back in time so they could post the stories "first" and thus embarrass the MSM.

(Seriously, I'm sure that it's happening. But I wouldn't put some bloggers past copying material from other sources and then backdating it in an effort to make themselves look "connected".)

I nominate Slashdot!

[Mewtwo]

I mean, seriously...how many stories has Slashdot lifted from other tech sites?

It should have been obvious

[bcore]

It should have been obvious that the media were just lifting blog entries, when the Sunday Times ran their groundbreaking editorial entitled "OMG OMG WTF R U TLAKING ABOUT?1111!!"