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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. this is VERY serious! by yagu · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. But... by sloths · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just pasted that entire headline straight from the article!

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  3. I nominate Slashdot! by Mewtwo · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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