Thread by @rumpfshaker

Stealing isn’t nice, @nypost @AlexSteigrad.

Here’s my 4/10 @Mediaite article on #WarnerBrosDiscovery CEO #DavidZaslav including a little scoop about his meeting w/ @CNN DC bureau.

Does it sound familiar? It should. You cut & pasted a big chunk of it. /1 mediaite.com/news/scoop-dis…

Here’s your 4/11 article. As I wrote in an email to you over 4 hours ago, I appreciate the link & credit for my reporting, but I do NOT appreciate the multiple sections that are taken verbatim from my article without proper designation as quotes. /2 nypost.com/2022/04/11/war…

Specifically, the entire middle section appears to have been cut-and-pasted from my writing, with only minimal changes & certainly well below any reasonable threshold to avoid constituting plagiarism.

Here are some screenshots, your article first, then mine./3

Here are some more screenshots with the next few paragraphs. Again, with your article first and then mine. /4

Maybe this blatant theft of my words was a mistake, but it’s a pretty big one, and regardless of motivation, it’s completely unacceptable. I trust that it will now be promptly remedied, and never happen again. 5/5

In response to a DMed question: I emailed the address listed in her profile.

And just in case they try to stealth edit, here is an internet archive capture of the article from yesterday, identical to the phrasing used in my screenshots. web.archive.org/web/2022041117…

A less blatant example but it does appear that the NY Post was previously, shall we say, *inspired* by the research of one of my colleagues. They at least rewrote her work but report the exact same facts she did and the sentences flow in the same order.

https://twitter.com/katherinehuggi/status/1511772646370947085?s=20&t=prt3uYEERlvNNsTFUgprDg

update: no reply, no email, NY Post article remains unchanged with that whole section they stole from me. I double checked spam folder; it's empty

Still no updates. No reply. No email. I’m following her on Twitter and she could follow back and send a DM apologizing and letting me know it was getting fixed any time now. 🤔

I think we’re gonna need a public apology at this point.