Easier Than Working
On Tuesday, award-winning Deseret Morning News columnist Doug Robinson "wrote" a column under the headline "Silly suit just makes miner look crazier," about Crandall Canyon mine co-owner Robert Murray's threat to file a defamation suit against a Penn State engineer who wrote a column in The Salt Lake Tribune, and the trade publication Coal Age.
It was a bang-up piece of work, and immediately a front-runner for "2007 Best Use of The Cut-And-Paste-Function Award."
The facts that Robinson sprinkled with his typical pithy asides were lifted from our story on Saturday, but he didn't bother with the uncomfortable step of crediting the original reporting.
Robinson quotes Jane Connor, founder of Utah News Clips, who, he says "reports" that her company was swamped with calls from organizations who wanted a copy of the briefing and started referring to it as "How Not To Do A Press Conference 101."
Actually, she didn't report that. I did.
And Robinson jokes that "he didn't get his copy of Coal Age this month." But he still "saw an excerpt." Now where could he have seen an excerpt -- the same excerpt quoted in The Trib?
He may not be getting his copy of Coal Age, but D-Rob's lucky he still gets The Trib. It makes his job a lot easier.
-- Robert Gehrke
It was a bang-up piece of work, and immediately a front-runner for "2007 Best Use of The Cut-And-Paste-Function Award."
The facts that Robinson sprinkled with his typical pithy asides were lifted from our story on Saturday, but he didn't bother with the uncomfortable step of crediting the original reporting.
Robinson quotes Jane Connor, founder of Utah News Clips, who, he says "reports" that her company was swamped with calls from organizations who wanted a copy of the briefing and started referring to it as "How Not To Do A Press Conference 101."
Actually, she didn't report that. I did.
And Robinson jokes that "he didn't get his copy of Coal Age this month." But he still "saw an excerpt." Now where could he have seen an excerpt -- the same excerpt quoted in The Trib?
He may not be getting his copy of Coal Age, but D-Rob's lucky he still gets The Trib. It makes his job a lot easier.
-- Robert Gehrke
11:46 AM
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2 Comments:
I can't tell if you are accusing him of plagiarism, or just citing the wrong source. Which is it?
I plagiarize you all the time. You're a wordsmith.
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