SB Nation writer canned for plagarism

Seems like it should be so much easier to discover than in the days of Janet Cooke. Still ...

Writer for SB Nation's Broncos' site commits plagiarism, gets fired

 

You get what you pay for -- or in SB Nation's case, you get what you can meddle free labor out of by selling the illusion of being taken credibly.

 

Yeah, I was going to ask, can you get fired from something you're not paid for?

 

That site is garbage. I enjoy Uffsides for the weekly NFL previews and some of the other writers, but only if I already recognize their name. Just too much crap to sift through. I like my recycling to be separated.

 

Jon Bois is a goddamn treasure, but he barely writes anymore.

 

Yeah, he was one of the writers I used to enjoy. What happened, did he become a "personality"? I frankly don't follow that site or its writers as much as I used to when it first started out. Hell, I even enjoyed the Longform section. But let's not revisit that debacle.

 

I bet the sit-down with Ms. Hew went like this.

 

It's really not hard to "steal" the content in the aggregating world without presenting it as your own. Go back to paying work!

 

Or as I call it, "Control-C, Control-V" journalism.

 

I could never understand why writers would resort to copying another writer's words. I wouldn't want to admit anyone could write a story better than I could.

 

Generally I think it's more that they have information you don't have.

 

I believe he's in charge of some kind of special projects, which means he makes very odd, very involved videos that I enjoy.