Media The Napster of Newspapers
posted by August 8 at 10:30 AM
onSlate has a bizarre article about a newspaper—the Montgomery County Bulletin, circulation 20,000—behaving like a blog. An ill-behaved blog that aggregates content without links and attribution.
Over the course of three years, stories from Rolling Stone, Slate, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Guardian, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune were all reprinted—slightly altered—in the Bulletin, sometimes under the byline “Mark Williams,” sometimes under no byline at all.
The Bulletin lists just five employees—”Mark Williams,” a calendar editor, a sales person, and the publisher, who was reluctant to cooperate with Slate on the story.
The publisher’s name? A fake-sounding “Mike Ladyman.”
And the simulacrum is complete.
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Information just wants to be free.
If Eli wrote this post it would have been a huuuuge blockquote followed by a link under his name.
only a slight difference of journalistic criminality
I would guess that a DMCA complaint to ValueWeb, the Bulletin's web host, would make the site go away pretty quickly.
It already shut down.
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