Lakers print reporter claims ESPN anchor stole story

Man, his "apology" was crap. He knew damn well what he was doing, I'd just like to know why he did it. Laziness? Didn't think people would catch it? Certainly not worth jeopardizing your career over.

 

Judith Griggs thinks you're all stupid

 

Man, his "apology" was crap. He knew damn well what he was doing, I'd just like to know why he did it. Laziness? Didn't think people would catch it? Certainly not worth jeopardizing your career over.

 

If he really was so in love with the set-up to his li'l highlights, why didn't he throw in a "As Kevin Ding of the Orange County Register wrote, ..." blah blah blah.

A little attribution and everything's cool, plus he gets to stick with the structure he ripped off.

It would be much better to be reprimanded by a supervisor for being lazy (just reading Ding's stuff rather than writing original script) than to be suspended by your employer and viewed by your entire industry as dishonest.

A little attribution, a willingness to be lazy and the guy is having a swell New Year's. Now not so much.

 

Hell, make the intro similar and not identical and nobody is any the wiser.

 

I'm inclined to cut the guy some slack because this is my greatest fear: I'll cut-and-paste something onto the Word file I'm using as my "notebook," it will commingle with every other quote I've jotted off the tape recorder and story start I've played with, and in a rush I will read down the whole big file and grab it as my own. Maybe I'm being naive in this case, but I could totally see this happening to me.

 

I worked with three guys who did just that. One was fired. One was suspended for a month. One was told to be careful and was not further disciplined. All three incidents were virtually identical and happened within two years of each other at the same paper.

 

“I made a horrible mistake and I’m deeply sorry. I did not live up to my high standards or ESPN’s. ..

 

Place playing favorites, eh?

 

Oh, it was ridiculous. The guy who was fired was very low on the totem pole. The guy who got a month was much higher up and a favorite of the SE. The guy who got slapped on the wrist was a superstar. I'm not saying all of them should have been fired, but some consistency is always nice.

 

Suspended.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/30/will-selva-plagiarism-esp_n_802608.html

 

I never understood how anyone could buy the notebook accident excuse.

Either you are lying or a horribly unorganized, forgetful and therefore untrustworthy journalist.