Monday, April 03, 2006

hit men & plagiarism

* bradblog on plagiarism by MSM:
"The reason it's important for these outlets to give proper attribution -- aside from being polite and appropriate and professional and we always do the same for them -- is because their recognition of the credibility of our work from yesterday lends credibility to our work in the future...
RAW STORY has been doing the work of angels for more than two years. BRAD BLOG has been doing the work of fallen angels for just about the same amount of time."

* more to the odd story/lawsuit that i mentioned the other day, it turns out that laura has already covered it (of course). she originally thought that it was 'goofy' but it appears there's more to it - not least our friend mr kontogiannis. viget chimes in with some comments here - interspersed with some refutations by 'anon'. I've now read the filing (pdf) which is now back online. i'll try to get back to the story in the next few days - but in the interim, read laura for a taste. (we've even got undercover investigators disguised as hit-men!)

* speaking of hit-men: " it turns out that Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, the guy on trial (along with two others) for whacking Gus Boulis, was an FBI informant and had been for years." (link)
(he's the guy that abramoff/kidan hired to take out their 'problem')

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