Oops. Sorry for the double.
This is a good followup. When you compare the King column to Powers' column, it seems like he subconsciously wanted to get caught and fired. It's a blatant ripoff. Getting pulled from Super Bowl week had to be a particularly humiliating moment to get that wish. I've always wondered why newspapers will fire a writer quickly for plagiarism but seem to be much slower to fire someone for sucking (c.f. Miller, Judith, and the New York Times).
rcade -- at the end of the day, the journalism corps in their bubble consider plagiarizing a major breach of journalistic ethics, while merely sucking (if that's what one calls relying on less-than-reliable sources and making stuff up to whip the nation into a war frenzy) does not breach some great standard that they believe defines what they do and who they are. Journalistic norms and ethics need to be refined and adapted to the present age (and a fair amount of what people refer to as journalistic ethics should probably be jettisoned altogether), but they are not. Another classic example is the exaltation of the need to be "objective" to some golden rule status that leads to reporters simply reporting a political party's or administration's talking points or financial projections without challenging them when they are, on their face, contradictory or wrong.
just another ass in the sports world
Really can't get enough "ass" talk, can you?
Boy I wish I was 16 again and knew everything. That felt great.
Not sports-specific but close enough: Dan Gillmore, for instance Jay Rosen, for instance Even Dave Winer, who I don't care much for at all (based on our personal interaction), has a good point (#4)
