Plagiarism
A scandal is brewing in the blogging world. Allegations are flying that Sean-Paul Kelley of The Agonist has been lifting stories from company called Stratfor without any sort of credit. I initially saw story about this at Oliver Willis who linked to Ken Laye who linked to Instapundit, which got me to lengthy WIRED magazine article. Considering that the Internet makes it easy to uncover plagiarism, not sure why anyone would do it over and over and over again (once I could brush off, but doing it 5-6 times a week is unforgiveable). If you don’t have original information and don’t want to give credit where credit is due, don’t blog.
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