<story><title>When a newspaper “rips off” your blog, then taunts you about it… </title><url>http://iandennismiller.com/blog/2011/03/total-bummer-longislandpress-com-plagiarism-and-coverup/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>This is a career ender -- instantaneously -- if you do it to another print publication.  Somebody at the Washington Post lifted a few paragraphs of one article from a newspaper you&apos;ve never heard of in Arizona.  Bam, lost her job the same day it was brought to the ombudsman&apos;s attention.&lt;p&gt;However, if you just run a website, you are &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; a journalist and the unwritten rules do not apply.  (This is one of the cultural reasons why newspapers cannot conceive of getting out of the dead tree distribution business, even if it is killing them -- that is the source of their power and privilege, after all.)</text></comment>
<story><title>When a newspaper “rips off” your blog, then taunts you about it… </title><url>http://iandennismiller.com/blog/2011/03/total-bummer-longislandpress-com-plagiarism-and-coverup/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>impendia</author><text>You say that you don&apos;t really want anyone to get fired over this. It&apos;s a noble attitude, and I admire it.&lt;p&gt;I am a college professor, and even though I observe at the end of each term that some of my students have failed to learn anything, I don&apos;t really want anyone to fail.&lt;p&gt;However, ...</text></comment>