Re: Barnicle???

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

Steve O wrote--

>Ethics?  You mean no one in this business has "borrowed" ideas?  Someone
>does a good morning show bit, or station promotion and before you know it
>the same bit or promotion is in every market.  We as a business have no
>right to put down someone for plagiarism.
> 
Umm, Steve, I love ya, but I do not agree with this statement.  It is
unfair to all the hard-working and ethical journalists who do not
out-and-out copy other people's material and pass it off as their own.
Mike did more than borrow ideas-- he lifted entire paragraphs and made up
sources/characters etc.  I do not condemn him, but I would not call him a
hero either...

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