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Monday, May 18, 2009 12:00 AM

The myth of the parasitical bloggers

Establishment media outlets claim that others steal their work for free, but the truth is often the opposite.
Glenn Greenwald

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Monday, May 18, 2009 03:02 PM

Another great plagiarism catch

Boyd Reed, a blogger over at TPM, found a writer at Salem-News.com who used his entire 2/20 post as essentially the first half of his 2/27 article on Michelle Bachman (and by far the better half). No attribution, natch.

Another klepto-journalist bites the dust.

Reed found the theft simply entering old blog titles on Google. (Another great law-enforcement tool that works, unlike torture.)

Link, as usual, @ sig.

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