MSM Plagiarism Strikes Again by Larisa AleandrovnaMarch 28th, 2006
PJM in LA, March 27, 2006 1:39 PM
Roger Simon thinks that Larisa Alexandrovna is taking it too easy on AP. The news organization was caught plagiarizing Ms. Alexandrovna’s work.
Related PJ Entries:
Plagiarism kerfuffle at the Washington Post
Larisa Alexandrovna is a journalist, essayist and poet. She is currently managing editor of Raw Story.
MSM Plagiarism Strikes Again – AP Welcome to the Party
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/msm-plagiarism-strikes-ag_b_17873.html
There are many things that bother me about plagiarism, but nothing irks me more than when a mainstream reporter (or organization) with all of the resources of a small nation at their disposal lifts from the small press, freelance journalists, and bloggers.
AP vs. Raw Story
Case in Point is my article on the new guidelines for security clearances.
The process of how I put this story together is important as it provides a brief glimpse into the amount of work and time I put into this research.
I got a tip in the form of a 2005 document that was issued "quietly" out of National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley's office, in which guidelines for issuing security clearances as well as access to government information had been updated from the
I had to contact officials at the State Department, experts at think tanks, and several intelligence agencies to find out if […]
I wondered what the two documents side by side might show and what, if any, differences there were.
[…]
In order to identify changes, I had to put the 1997 and 2005 documents side by side and go line by line, noting in a spreadsheet the text of one and the other, and then noting what the change was, if any. This was a long, tedious, and frankly boring task.
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The article can be found HERE.
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On March 14, 2006, the AP did their own article, left out any attribution to me or my publication and lifted not only my research but also whole sections of my article for their own (making cosmetic changes of course).
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Unfortunately this is far too common and has happened to me and to other writers and bloggers far too frequently. This time, however, we made a point of tape recording the AP apparatchiks admitting to taking our work and using it without attribution, stating "we do not credit blogs".
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Yet, even after the advocacy groups reminded the AP of where they got the information, the news organization would not provide attribution.
Here are again, links to both articles:
Raw Story, March 13, 2006 and AP, March 14, 2006 (mind you, this is syndicated, so the plagiarism is compounded)
PLEASE READ MORE: (28 comments) 2006, Judith Miller, Valerie Plame
Read the entire article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/msm-plagiarism-strikes-ag_b_17873.html
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