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So you've been blatantly ripped off ... what do you do now

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Rhody31, Mar 24, 2009.

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  1. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    Found a nice small story on local State U player getting invited to 3-point contest. Ran it in Wednesday and Thursday's weeklies, family of daily papers ran it Friday or Saturday.
    One of the local news station reports that player was picked for contest. Coincidentally enough, reporter for said station is from area of our paper.
    No credit. WTF.

    Anything I can do here?
     
    Rhody31, Mar 24, 2009
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  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    If the other guy used the word "blantanly" in his copy, you have the smoking gun.
     
    LongTimeListener, Mar 24, 2009
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  3. write then drink

    write then drink Guest

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    get used to it


    i laughed
     
    write then drink, Mar 24, 2009
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  4. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    You have no control over or rights to facts.
     
    RickStain, Mar 24, 2009
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  5. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    Welcome to every day at my shop.
     
    mustangj17, Mar 24, 2009
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  6. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    Even if there is no attribution in their story to where it came for and no press release for the event has been made.
    They sold the story like they found it. They didn't.
    And as an aside, the TV sports guys in my state - not hard to figure out which one - haven't broken a story down here in decades.
     
    Rhody31, Mar 24, 2009
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  7. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    It doesn't matter. Facts are public domain. You do not own them.

    Was it shady? Yes. Is there anything you can do about it? No.
     
    RickStain, Mar 24, 2009
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  8. Bullwinkle

    Bullwinkle Member

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    Sounds like a heck of a scoop you had.
     
    Bullwinkle, Mar 24, 2009
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  9. jps

    jps Active Member

    Re: So you've been blantanly ripped off ... what do you do now

    local tv ripping stories from the sports section! when the hell did this start??!!

    (sorry, rhody ... happens in every market, every day. if this is the first it's happened to you, your tv folks are better about it than any I've ever met.)
     
    jps, Mar 24, 2009
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  10. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    So how is this different from one paper rewriting a news story from another paper and putting their own byline on it?
     
    Rhody31, Mar 24, 2009
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  11. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    It's not. They can do that too. And it happens.
     
    RickStain, Mar 24, 2009
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  12. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    No - the tv folks here do it all the time. I just cover prep sports - which they totally ignore - and State U - which they also ignore unless it's a game.
     
    Rhody31, Mar 24, 2009
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