Scandal: Daily Telegraph NYC based [Online?] Journo steals blog content

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Melissa Whitworth - Yet another silly young journalist that doesn't understand ethics

Journalistic Superiority at Work
http://www.copyblogger.com/journalistic-superiority-at-work/

5 Signs Your Newspaper is Doomed ( Melissa Whitworth and the end of The Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/z3uny

Daily Telegraph have taken down the post, but the cache still exists
http://tinyurl.com/gbu7b

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

She was caught by bloggers stealing a complete blog post from another blogger.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Follow the blogosphere reaction via Google Blog Search:
http://tinyurl.com/harc9

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

The real test will be whether the old media picks this story up, or whether it simply circles the blogosph3r3 with no actual effect.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 27 August 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

i reckon the web savvy types at the Guardian will pick this news story up.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 August 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

reaction at problogger:
http://tinyurl.com/gnxv5

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

update

do you believe this explanation:

Melissa Whitworth: A terrible misunderstanding
http://tinyurl.com/n43mn

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 August 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

that may or may not be true, but it has more plausibility than most "oops i plagiarized" excuses. it suggests that she doesn't have the ability to post directly to her blog, which could also be true and might not be a bad control mechanism for a newspaper to have. or she could just be backing and filling. anyway, tempests and teapots.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 27 August 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

DJ MARTIAN, XTRA THANK U FOR MAKING THOSE URLS TINY

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Sunday, 27 August 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

OVER 65% OF ILXORS CANNOT ABIDE LONG URLS

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Sunday, 27 August 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

anyway, tempests and teapots

i came here to say exactly that :)

what a tedious non-story.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 27 August 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

tinyurls are easy to use with:

blummy
http://blummy.com/
blummy is a free tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 27 August 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

is there a blummy wiki?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

Her excuse sounds plausible to me. You'd have to be incredibly stupid to plagiarize something in its entirety in the age of Google.

Even college freshmen (generally) aren't that dumb.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

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