...or our words, as the case may be.
The AP doesn't think it is necessary to cite or credit blogs, and the Raw Story has it on tape:
We contacted an AP senior editor and ombudsmen both and both admitted to having had the article passed on to them, and both stated that they viewed us as a blog and because we were a blog, they did not need to credit us. What we are or are not is frankly irrelevant. What is relevant is that by using a term like blog to somehow excuse plagiarism, the mainstream press continues to lower the bar for acceptable behavior. It need not matter where the AP got the information, research, and actual wording from. What matters is that if they use it in part or in whole, they must attribute properly. A blog or a small press publication or grads students working in the corner of a library all equally deserve credit for their work, period.
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".
Total, utter thieving. And they have the nerve to admit it to the people they stole it from.
Via Feministe.
Posted by binky at March 28, 2006 09:13 AM | TrackBack | Posted to BlogoramaReading over that post, I want to be clear that the "our" is meant in the sense of the tag: blogorama, as in all of the blogosphere, not Bloodless Coup.
Posted by: binky at March 28, 2006 09:39 AM | PERMALINK