Journalistic thievery
The latest gripe from this journalist: A reporter from the other local paper stole from my article that was published a day earlier. It's just barely vague enough that I doubt he'd get in any trouble for it, but it's still stealing. He was not in court to hear the testimony I talked about in my article that was printed yesterday, but that testimony somehow appeared in his story today.One argument is that maybe he looked at the court transcript. That's not reasonable, since he didn't mention other interesting things that would have appeared on the page before or after the testimony in question. Another argument is that people told him about it. That's all fine and dandy, but it would still need to be attributed to someone.
I'm not surprised by this, because the reporter showed up an hour late -- as I was in my car, heading back to work. He showed up an hour late yesterday, too, took a very long lunch and missed at least half of the five-hour hearing. What he was doing, I have no idea. I do know, though, that he wrote no other stories that day. I bet he makes more money than I do, too.
Posted by Layla at 8:14 AM, August 23, 2003
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