Tuesday, January 3, 2006

According to a posting yesterday in the blog Regret the Error, three newspapers recently lifted, failed to verify, and posted as news a humorous brief originally written a decade ago by Randy Cassingham in his online newsletter This Is True.

The apparently guilty papers are the Toronto Star, the Wisconsin State Journal, and the Rocky Mountain News. (Here are the articles from the Star and State Journal; the News' version has been removed at this writing.) The blog noted that Cassingham "has every right to be upset. All three papers failed their readers by not checking the wire to verify the story. But the Star's infractions are by far the worst. The paper lifted the item and failed to credit any source. Then it plagiarized."

So, the next time you hear someone make a blanket statement about how unreliable online media are compared to print newspapers, keep this anecdote in mind.
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