Re: Plagiarism

[Kyle Rittenhouse - NOT GUILTY!]

In article <sr55hk$38g$9...@news.freedyn.de>
Hastings <hast...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On 13 Aug 2021, Mark Shaw <ms...@panix.com> posted some
> news:sf7eql$5gr$1...@reader1.panix.com:
>
> > Jay Furr <jf...@furrs.org> wrote:
> >
> > [reformatted for linefeeds]
> >
> >> I know that alt.folklore.urban is essentially dead, but that said,
> >> is anyone out there?
> >
> > Yep, a few of us.
> >
> >> I got emails today from the staff at snopes.com informing me that
> >> snopes himself has gotten in major hot water for plagiarizing lots
> >> and lots of news stories and not giving credit, and that he's been
> >> suspended from all creative access to the site.
> >
> >> I'm surprised and disappointed. I was wondering if others had any
> >> more profound or interesting reactions.
> >
> > It's been in the news. I'm also a bit surprised, but it is what it
> > is.
> >
> > The downside is that, despite the (somewhat deserved) popular
> > perception of bias on the part of snopes.com, they've been pretty
> > well consistently a gold-plated source for details one can cite to
> > combat {d|m}isinformation. This event will damage their credibility
> > in the eyes of many. This is a pretty bad thing, in that it will
> > introduce even more friction in the machinery of internet discourse.
>
> Indeed it has.
>
> From: Nadegda <nad31...@gmail.invalid>
> Message-ID: <sn9jg3$njg$1...@dont-email.me>
> Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 01:37:08 -0000 (UTC)
>
> "I searched Snopes high and low for any reference to this and found
> nothing."
>
> That isn't proof, kook.
>
> From: Nadegda <nad31...@gmail.invalid>
> Message-ID: <snbk6h$cmu$8...@dont-email.me>
> Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 20:01:22 -0000 (UTC)
>
> >> SMH... snopes is run by former usenet trolls.
> >
> > Proof, kook?
>
> Rookie troll Nadegda's lack of Usenet historical knowledge and inability
> to use Bing or google noted and recorded.
>
> In 1994 David and Barbara Mikkelson created Urban Legends Reference Pages,
> an urban folklore website that was later renamed Snopes.com.
>
> David Mikkelson had originally adopted the username "Snopes" (the name of
> a family of often unpleasant people in the works of William Faulkner) as a
> username in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.

Lol!

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