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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 Bogtha · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Frosting? You think the topic of writing is mere "frosting"?

    So you are saying that political analysis, teenage diaries, and technical articles are all intrinsically the same because of the format in which they are published then?

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    Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha