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Broussard and photo attribution

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by tapintoamerica, Apr 24, 2016.

  1. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    This has to be plagiarism, right? The screen grabs in the link below suggest an effort to save the photo and use it in a separate tweet (not a retweet) without attribution.
    http://deadspin.com/chris-broussard-rips-off-dallas-morning-news-editor-1772735898

    Only six hours later does a reference to the original source appear.

    In terms of journalism, this is a more egregious act than Schilling's bigotry, which was cause for termination but was not a journalism issue per se. Curious if anything happens here.
     
  2. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    This is an open rebellion against God.
     
  3. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Is this better or worse than when he pretended to get a text "confirming" LeBron was going back to Cleveland even though LeBron himself has said just that 10 minutes earlier?
     
  4. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Worse. The LeBron thing was for show. This is outright fraud.
     
  5. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Gonna go out on a limb here and say he doesn't get Schillinged.
     
  6. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    So is this (and so is he):

     
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