More MSM Stealing From Bloggers

First, we had the case of SI.com blatantly ripping off Japers’ Rink. Not once, but twice.

Sadly, that one didn’t get the attention I thought it deserved.

But I think this one will, now that Fark has picked it up.

Seems that ESPN Radio’s Colin Cowherd (who is on WGR here in Buffalo from 10 a.m.-12 noon) read, almost verbatim, a really funny post a blog called The M Zone put up about the Wonderlic Test. The post calling out Cowherd is here, complete with the audio from Cowherd’s show. It is a blatant case of a complete and total ripoff from a blogger.

But worst of all is Cowherd’s response to the M Zone’s e-mail that informed him he just stole their property:

Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:35 AM
From: ESPN Colin Cowherd Show
To: michiganzone at adelphia dot net
Subject: RE: From the M Zone
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WE WERE SENT IT….WE HAD NO IDEA..BUT THE INCESSANT WHINING…MEANS I WON’T GIVE YOU CREDIT NOW..GET OVER IT
CC

—–Original Message—–
From: michiganzone[at]adelphia(.) [michiganzone[at]adelphia” .?net
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:31 AM
To: ESPN Colin Cowherd Show
Subject: From the M Zone

Loved the Wonderlic bit you did yesterday. Liked it better when we
wrote it and posted it on our site site March 1st.

http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/

Not cool.

Yost and the M Zone gang

http://www.michiganzone.net/

I think that’s about as low as you can get, stealing material for your big radio show without giving any credit. And then to say it was “sent to them” shows how little journalistic integrity they have. Colin, it’s called Google, and you could have found the original authors in about 45 seconds, credited them, and moved on. Instead, you should just be fired.