1. If you publish press releases verbatim, which is what the issuer of the releases wants, is that plagiarism?
2. I've heard of sewing circles and crop circles and on-deck circles. What's an ethics circle?
3. Did anyone else chuckle when someone wrote in
E&P about that nasty old practice of running press releases?
Quote:
Plagiarism and journalism. Two isms that seem inseparable these days.
The painful relationship is riveting Midwestern ethics circles where Steve Penn, a former longtime metro columnist for The Kansas City (Mo.) Star, is suing the newspaper for defamation.
The Star fired Penn July 12, 2011 because it said he had been publishing press releases verbatim in his column — a form of plagiarism that has plagued the news media for ages. Then last July, Penn fired back, filing his suit against the Star and corporate owner, McClatchy Newspapers, Inc., alleging his editors knew all about his pilfering and that plagiarizing press releases was common practice at the paper.
“We believe the evidence is going to show that it (copying press releases without attribution) was widely done by various reporters at the Star,” Penn’s lawyer Lyle M. Gregory told The Pitch, an alternative newspaper in Kansas City.
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