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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 Darby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Fevered" politically-correct "delusions" such as "some Americans are Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, or atheists"? Check your own damned fever.

    Hardly.
    I'm an atheist, and I've always celebrated Christmas. It's the freaking winter solstice celebration and has been since long before Christianity even existed. Heck, if there ever was a Jesus, then most evidence points to him having been born in the summer.
    It isn't even remotely a religious holiday in general although there are those who treat it as such.

    I celebrate it as the end of the year, it's a time when most people have time off and I can get together with family and friends I haven't seen in some time. All of my family and most of my wife's live on the West Coast (From San Diego to Vancouver) and we live in Chicago. It's really nice to know that there's a time we can plan well in advance to head home and everybody will be there.

    So, if you live in America, then you will "have" a Christmas whether or not you do anything that day or not.
    The OP was exactly right. Whoever modded him flamebait was an idiot.