seanbonner: The Register Steals Stories!

November 04, 2004

The Register Steals Stories!

Yesterday Jonas Luster noticed an image of George W. Bush on CNN/Netscape.com called "asshole.jpg and promptly blogged it. Today The Register has a story about the exact same thing written by Ashlee Vance in Chicago with NO credit to Jonas at all. In fact, they don't even say a blogger found it. They say "citizen journalists discovered.."

What's that all about? Jonas deserves the credit.

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Well, the motto of The Register is 'Biting the hand that feeds IT'. :-)

Posted by: Khalid on November 5, 2004 12:11 AM

Bastards.

They'r always so mean to google. I knew there was something they were hiding.

Posted by: ed adkins on November 5, 2004 12:23 AM

Ashlee Vance and Andrew Orlowski have stolen and plagiarized on many occasions. This is not new for people like them without talent.

Posted by: Hopper on November 5, 2004 12:48 AM

Get over it. Many bloggers *are* citizen journalists. Be grateful they called bloggers "journalists" at all.

My scoop on something was lifted this morning in a similar way.

Posted by: Robert Andrews on November 5, 2004 05:53 AM

Robert - I've spent a lot of time on this in the past and don't feel the need to revisit it currently, but quickly, for the record - BLOGGERS ARE NOT JOURNALISTS. They aren't trying to be, and they don't want to be. Certainly there are exceptions, and plenty of journalists are now bloggers as well, but that is only because they will have to be if they want to stay relevant. Saying a blogger is a journalist isn't a complement.

Posted by: Sean Bonner on November 5, 2004 07:23 AM

Plus, journalists *are* citizens. And Andrew Orlowski is as much a blogger as anyone.

Posted by: finite on November 5, 2004 09:55 AM

But only bloggers can communicate by telepathy. That's one thing Big Media hacks like Vance and Orlowsky will never be able to do.

The Revolution WILL BE BLOGGED!!

Posted by: Sandra on November 10, 2004 01:03 AM