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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."
I'm still baffled by the concept that anyone with a blog would say anything even remotely worth plagiarizing.
.com world / business / work-environments. I think I would be justifiably upset if I weren't at least credited. In all cases (to my knowledge) I have been credited and I appreciate it.
That being said, I have been quoted or referenced a number of times in various publications including books on the transition of the
There have been times where my ideas or content (as far as my auction site itself or material on it) have been misused, but that's a completely different thing.
fundamentally, this is about reporting accountability - and bloggers have NONE.
at least reporters when they get busted for bad behavior have a possibility of getting shafted by their employer. bloggers? they can lie, misalign and publish libel all day long without any reprocussions.
bloggers are neat and all, but i think once they gain an audience they can become corrupt and lazy. ie. following the "blog = googlenews/slashdot link + opinion" formula without thinking at all.
off topic my ass! ya beat me to the post!
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
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