"Journalism is the application of intelligence to information."~David Leigh, author WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
The absence of said intelligence = plagiarism. Canadian network steal YouTube videos and embed them on their sites.
The National Post published an article, from a Métis woman's blog, about Attawapiskat, and first claimed a by-line for one of their journalists, then rescinded when they realized their HUGE mistake.
The entire article is on their website = plagiarism. I first spotted this on Megan's blog. She calls this type of thing a splog. Lazy editors not bothering to do their research. Lazy media not hiring journalists to do a job.
About âpihtawikosisân
Métis from Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta. Currently living in Montreal, Quebec. Passions: education, Aboriginal law, the Cree language, and roller derby. Education: BEd, LLB, working on a BCLIt is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order. But the moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. If the writer is unwilling to fill this part, then the writer should abandon pretense and find another line of work: become a shoe repairman, a brain surgeon, a janitor, a cowboy, a nuclear physicist, a bus driver.
~Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
2 comments:
Thanks for spreading the word.
It wasn't one of their journalists' byline, it was the byline of the helpful guy who sent them a link, thinking it would help them with their reporting. (A well-intentioned fellow, to be sure.) How they leaped to "He wrote it and is giving permission to reprint" is beyond me.
One wonders how much of this goes on and we don't catch it?
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