“Give Credit Where Credit is Due.” by Brad Friedman
Editor and Publisher post from April 4th, 2006
Read the Editor and Publisher post from April 4th, 2006: “Give Credit Where Credit is Due.”
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/mailto:letters@editorandpublisher.com
[June 28th, 2007 UPDATE: I think it is a dead link, darn it. Or - It may be behind a pay-wall at this point? Or maybe I made a mistake when I copied the link? But I can’t bring it up for the life of me… And that’s a shame because the rest of the piece is quite profound. Brad Friedman nailed this issue in a highly readable and thoughtful manner and this matter of the mainstream media not giving on-line journalists adequate credit for their work continues to be a problem. Go to the end of this post and you’ll get a glimpse….]
Thanks to the wonderful folks – and a great editor - who carry one of my columns, Patuxent Publishing, I am, perhaps, the first blogger to be credentialed by
With the exception of some isolated incidents with individuals with a general “attitude problem,” I have had very little problem with organizations to respond or cooperate on articles for the blog.
However, when I broke the Michael Olesker (a columnist for the
If you will recall, I’m the one who called-out Michael Olesker… Doug Tallman with the Gazette was a stand-up guy and gave me credit. The Associated Press, Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun refused to acknowledge my work or that I exist… And I put many-many-many exhausting hours of work into that piece…
In a Tentacle column I wrote on December 21st, 2005, “Who is Max Cleland?,” I called to my readers’ attention that Mr. Olesker had written a column on December 12th, 2005, “Continuing the pattern of dirty politics,” in which he failed to properly attribute a portion of his column to words – intellectual property – that had been written by Peter Carlson in The Washington Post, on Thursday, July 3, 2003, on page C01.
On December 24th, 2005, the
On a related front, in spite of the fact that colleagues get upset with me when I say this; I found Mr. Olesker’s explanation of the matter plausible. I think that the
[January 15th, 2007 UPDATE: That said, to his discredit, Mr. Olesker did not take responsibility for the alleged and made the entire matter worse…
Ay caramba.]
But on the other equally big issue - - apparently as you can read here, the story is murky as to whether or not the Associated Press credits on-line journalists… In my case, there was no murky about it. They did not credit my work…
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Mainstream news sites fell in love with blogs and citizen journalists last year--but this year they still often fail to credit them when following up on some of their most credible scoops.
By Brad Friedman
(April 01, 2006) -- Recently, the Associated Press carried an article which was based largely on material uncovered through the diligence, research and eagle eyes of the folks at the Web-based news site Raw Story. Though the AP has now admitted to using Raw Story's original reporting, they failed to give credit of any sort to the site.
When called on it by the editor at Raw Story, they said that it was AP policy not to credit blogs. After it was found that they do credit blogs on occasion, they modified their comments to say "We do credit blogs that we know," but added they hadn't heard of Raw Story.
Never mind that Raw Story has been credited by name in dozens of leading newspapers around the country. Or that it is not even a "blog" -- whatever that means, and whatever that has to do with it.
Journalism is journalism is journalism. […]
Read the entire article here: Give Credit Where Credit is Due
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Associated Press does not credit bloggers
June 28th, 2007
Larisa Alexandrovna: MSM Plagiarism Strikes Again – AP Welcome to ...
Yes, the groups had found it in my article, which they gave to the AP. ... We do not credit blogs! Never mind that plenty of journalists have blogs or that ... www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/msm-plagiarism-strikes-ag_b_17873.html - 39k - Jun 27, 2007 - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Larisa Alexandrovna: Now "We Credit Blogs we Know" - AP Part II ...
He found that the AP had, indeed, gotten our article from "human rights groups" but that it was AP policy not to credit blogs. "It does turn out that we ... www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/now-we-credit-blogs-we-k_b_18057.html - 40k - Jun 27, 2007 - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: The "credibility" of the ...
And, to their great credit, AP -- which continues to aggressively defend its ..... UPDATE X (a new record): Right-wing bloggers are not, of course, ... glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/credibility-of-right-wing-blogosphere.html - 57k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
The Raw Story Associated Press releases statement about Raw ...
An AP spokesman did tell Raw Story that AP does not credit blogs, but he was mistaken. AP does credit blogs when we are aware that they have broken a story ... www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Associated_Press_releases_statement_about_Raw_0404.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall March 29, 2006 08:44 PM
This evening I noticed that a writer for the Associated Press, ... a 'blog' and orders its stories in reverse chronological order does not give Mr. Hananel ... www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008044.php - 35k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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