Fraud exposed in New York Times

[IHP]

EDIT: Sorry, I realized that this was copyrighted.

But any way,

heres a link to the story (http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s852140.htm)

Hmm, curious...

--IHP

(Edited by i hate pinochet at 1:43 am on May 16, 2003)

[hazard]

plagiarism? is it me or is the media so fucking undereducated it isn't funny? what, like what was he doing? was he copying OTHER peoples stories or was he making up his own stories?

complete idiots. and they say english degrees are worthless

[IHP]

He was just making them up from his apartment in New York, he never went to any of the places he was writing about.

[hazard]

I know, thats not plagiarism though. plagiarism is when you take somebody else's material and claim it to be your own. like if I were to say that the Communist Manifesto were written by me.

what he did is no different than what the news already does; make shit up.

[Liberty Lover]

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/upload/reid_trophy.jpg

...for the brazen recycling of other people's work. (http://www.abc.net.au/cgi-bin/guestlst/guestbook.pl?mediawatch/mw_trophy&)

site:

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/

(Edited by Liberty Lover at 8:46 am on May 16, 2003)

[hazard]

how about if I smash that fish over head? how about that?

it reminds me of pussy, yeah YOU HEARD ME. that fuck went witness protetcion on the bing. NEVER DISRESPECT 'DA BING!

lover, if you don't want to make any sense, try what I just did. at least what I did made SOME sense

[Liberty Lover]

Idiot.

[hazard]

who said that, the fish?

I guess for a brainwashed, mindcontrolled slave who only watches shit like survivor what I said WOULD be idiotic. my line was taken from the highest rated TV series in the history of TV that runs without ads. maybe thats why you don't know it. you only watch TV to get your daily dose of ads.

otherwise, you wouldn't know what brands of toilet paper to buy or what deals mcdonalds has to offer. you'd die hungry AND with a dirty asshole.

when the cattle calls one such as I an idiot, one is forced to call the cattle hamburg.

[Dhul Fiqar]

Wow, it's been so long since I came into OI, it's even less pleasant than I remember ;)

I'd just like to point out that he was plagiarizing because he read reports from other reporters and watched the news on TV, then wrote about it for tomorrows paper. Basically all his info came from the other media outlets...

Might be a grey area, but definitely not a good piece of journalism ;)

--- G.

[Liberty Lover]

Hazard,

Before I start let my reiterate my earlier comment that you are an idiot.

I do not watch a great deal of TV but when I do it is more often than not the two public stations available, if you had checked my links you would have noticed they were for the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Perhaps the reason I am not familiar with the show you were quoting is because it is not televised in my country. A name would help in determining whether or not this is the case.

There is no McDonalds in my town and if there were I would not frequent it for the simple reason that I find the available food to be grotesque.

In response to your juvenile comment about the reasoning behind what brand of toilet paper I use…I will say once more: You are an idiot.

[Hampton]

What's the diffrence if a channel has no ads when it's run by AOL Time Warner? If you find Pizza Hut offensive towards Italians, how can that show not be the same?

[Liberty Lover]

Is this directed at me?

[Dhul Fiqar]

I have become incredibly confused... who's doing what with with the what now?

[IHP]

I am also somewhat confused, how did pizza hut get involved?

Hazard, I know what plagiarism is.

LL, what the deal with the fish? Are you somehow referring to the Richard Carleton plagiarism case? I'm not sure...

--IHP

[Liberty Lover]

Don't you watch Media Watch? They once caught Campbell Reid plagiarising so he sent them a dead fish, like in the Godfather.

Read the link:

“Campbell (The Barra) Reid supplied the fish, so we designed this trophy for the brazen recycling of other people's work.

A prestigious award like The Barra deserved an appropriate motto. We suggested: "I surf, I cut, I paste" but Media Watchers had better ideas.

Peter Langton sent us "Carpe Verbatim" which we're loosely translating as "Seize it word for word".”

[Dhul Fiqar]

lol, that's actually very amusing :)

[IHP]

ha, that is funny.

--IHP