Plagiarism runs rampant at Texas alt weekly

Stitch · Aug 8, 2008

I hope Williams asks his parents to buy a nice couch to sleep on. And any adult PPV's on the cable bill are a mistake.

GuessWho · Aug 9, 2008

Small Town Guy said:

And the publication is folding.

http://gawker.com/400123/slate-article-causes-copying-texas-alt+weekly-to-quit-in-a-huff
And a quote from the infamous plagiarizer.

"...It must have taken years of seasoned investigative know-how to push me off my lofty perch. It takes a dogged, intrepid journalist to expose the alleged wrongdoings of a 44-year-old college dropout who drifted from one lousy media job to another for 20 years; it takes courage to debase someone with a mouthful of cut-rate dentures who, up until 2007, lived in his parents' home for seven years due to near-fatal bouts of clinical depression; it takes a journalist of a certain caliber to torpedo a pathetic hack who has barely squeezed out a living for nearly a decade at seven cents a word."
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I'm shocked, Shocked! :

Overrated · Aug 9, 2008

Small Town Guy said:

a pathetic hack who has barely squeezed out a living for nearly a decade at seven cents a word."
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Hell, I'd take seven cents a word if they were someone else's words.

Someone else's words: The gift that keeps on giving.

Singapore Slim · Aug 9, 2008

Small Town Guy said:

And the publication is folding.

http://gawker.com/400123/slate-article-causes-copying-texas-alt+weekly-to-quit-in-a-huff
And a quote from the infamous plagiarizer.

"...It must have taken years of seasoned investigative know-how to push me off my lofty perch. It takes a dogged, intrepid journalist to expose the alleged wrongdoings of a 44-year-old college dropout who drifted from one lousy media job to another for 20 years; it takes courage to debase someone with a mouthful of cut-rate dentures who, up until 2007, lived in his parents' home for seven years due to near-fatal bouts of clinical depression; it takes a journalist of a certain caliber to torpedo a pathetic hack who has barely squeezed out a living for nearly a decade at seven cents a word."
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Jay Farrar considers you a plagiarist.

sirvaliantbrown · Aug 9, 2008

JayFarrar said:

If a blog copies and pastes an article from the paper's site, they are doing the same thing as what that guy was doing in Texas.
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That is ludicrous. Pasting three paragraphs, attributing them to their source, then critically discussing them is very very obviously different than running uncredited work as if it were your own.

TheMethod · Aug 9, 2008

sirvaliantbrown said:

JayFarrar said:

If a blog copies and pastes an article from the paper's site, they are doing the same thing as what that guy was doing in Texas.
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That is ludicrous. Pasting three paragraphs, attributing them to their source, then critically discussing them is very very obviously different than running uncredited work as if it were your own.
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Yeah, that argument makes no sense. As long as there's credit given, I'm glad when another outlet picks up my story.

But when the local TV station rips my story right off our Web site, reports it and never even mentions my paper, I want to start cockpunching people.

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