A problem in Detroit?

My 2 cents:

The article linked is no prize. It's confusing, buries the lead and oddly seems like it's trying to be objective with this pent up anger burbling up.

It's not the slightest bit unusual for a story or column to mention someone who never talked to that paper or writer. In some cases it's very lazy, though.

 

No. 22,345 on the list of Detroit's problems.

 

#lowhangingfruit

 

what happened.

 

Sharp should have been shitcanned when it first happened. His paper offered to pay the original writer for an article that he wrote for another publication because Sharp had so blatantly plagiarized. That says it all, both about the offense and about the journalistic standards of the Detroit Free Press. Oh, our employee stole your shit? Here, let's pay you for what he stole. We good now?

 

Incidentally, Sharp WAS shitcanned from his talk-radio gig a week or so ago, but it appeared to have nothing to do with the plagiarism, rather Sharp's utter snooze-inducing incompetence as a radio talker.

 

Ironically,sports talk radio is a gig where you can liberally borrow from stories with little or no attribution.