Twitter and self plagiarism

[spikechiquet]

Calling someone a plagariser isn't just calling someone lazy. Can I call you a rapist? I'm taking a stand.

But if you are raping yourself...is that a good thing or bad thing?

I tell myself no, but I just won't stop.

I've even smacked myself around a few times to make myself stop, but I liked it so much I didn't stop until I was finished.
Then I took a picture to blackmail myself into doing it again.

*Geez, that got dark quickly...who write this shirt?*

 

[Gator]

My point was that pride and ethics are great things to have but they do not pay the bills. He has questioned why journalists with fewer ethics are employed while he is not. Blogs like these surely will keep him wondering, especially ina small state with a very finite number of media jobs.

At some point reality has to set in.

 

[YankeeFan]

Does Rhody have permission to post photos from NFL games on his blog? It appears he's a thief.

This is quite a good point. I am assuming all of the photos Rhody uses to augment his blog are from professional news services that expect to be paid.

Haters gonna hate.

 

[Songbird]

Can you imagine if Miggy was a great strikeout pitcher, too?

 

[Morris816]

My point was that pride and ethics are great things to have but they do not pay the bills. He has questioned why journalists with fewer ethics are employed while he is not. Blogs like these surely will keep him wondering, especially ina small state with a very finite number of media jobs.

At some point reality has to set in.

Your point is certainly taken. And I agree that Rhody should never have used the words "self plagiarism" and certainly shouldn't have brought up how he worked hard at a job and lost it through no fault of his own. I can sympathize with that, as it happened to me (and to many others who post here) but grumbling about others you think are lazy who keep their jobs and then follow with "woe is me" is not the way to frame a debate.

But... had Rhody simply taken the route of "taking multiple Twitter posts and then turning them into a column is lazy journalism," it might be a discussion worth having.

In other words, it's not Rhody's opinion that's the problem, it's how he expressed it. Yeah, pride and ethics don't pay the bills, but that doesn't mean we can't debate what is and isn't ethical in journalism.

 

[Rhody31]

Well put.

 

[sgreenwell]

Agree with others - it's nowhere close to plagiarism. I don't even think it's all that lazy or hacky of him, but then again, I tend to like Patinkin's writing in general. He's typically their "slice of life" columnist, so I don't really view it as that serious of a deal if he wants to repackage his tweets for his columns in some way.

 

[Gator]

My point was that pride and ethics are great things to have but they do not pay the bills. He has questioned why journalists with fewer ethics are employed while he is not. Blogs like these surely will keep him wondering, especially ina small state with a very finite number of media jobs.

At some point reality has to set in.

Your point is certainly taken. And I agree that Rhody should never have used the words "self plagiarism" and certainly shouldn't have brought up how he worked hard at a job and lost it through no fault of his own. I can sympathize with that, as it happened to me (and to many others who post here) but grumbling about others you think are lazy who keep their jobs and then follow with "woe is me" is not the way to frame a debate.

But... had Rhody simply taken the route of "taking multiple Twitter posts and then turning them into a column is lazy journalism," it might be a discussion worth having.

In other words, it's not Rhody's opinion that's the problem, it's how he expressed it. Yeah, pride and ethics don't pay the bills, but that doesn't mean we can't debate what is and isn't ethical in journalism.

Debate. Perfect. Debate it on a journalism website or on your Facebook and Twitter feeds with other journalism friends. Love that idea. See what other people think. That is a do. A don't would be writing a scathing blog about it, spread it about and immediately send a tweet to the executive editor of the paper while waiting to hear what the Providence Newspaper Guild has to say about it. It's like calling 911 when McDonald's is out of chicken nuggets. A complete overreaction.

It would have been in the best interest of the writer to, you know, perhaps send a private email to the columnist to point out his concern. Maybe the columnist would agree, and it would never happen again. Instead, it went straight to DEFCON 1.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Can you imagine if Miggy was a great strikeout pitcher, too?

He'd almost be Babe Ruth.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Can you imagine if Miggy was a great strikeout pitcher, too?

He'd almost be Babe Ruth.

That would make him a baseball plagiarist.

 

[Songbird]

I can hear Dan Dickerson now: "Miggy with another 1-2-3 inning after RT'ing the side on 2 favorites and an MT."

Or something.

 

[mediaguy]

Had Rhody cited his example and asked if it was lazy, sure, I suppose. It's not plagiarism.

It's not about the downward spiral of journalism ethics. It's about not understanding what a term means.