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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Arthwys on April 01, 2008, 01:36:00 pm

Title: LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?
Post by: Arthwys on April 01, 2008, 01:36:00 pm
Looks like they stole Onions story from over a month ago.
 
 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/onion.html (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/onion.html)
 
 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Onion_News_Diebold_already_rigged_election_0227.html (http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Onion_News_Diebold_already_rigged_election_0227.html)
Title: Re: LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?
Post by: Venerable Bede on April 01, 2008, 01:48:00 pm
is there a more worthless major city newspaper than the l.a. times?  other than having joel stein as a columnist, there is little that redeems it.
Title: Re: LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?
Post by: Brian_Wallace on April 01, 2008, 02:11:00 pm
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  is there a more worthless major city newspaper than the l.a. times?  other than having joel stein as a columnist, there is little that redeems it.
You ENJOY the writing of JOEL STEIN!!??!  Are you serious?  He's the absolute WORST.  So whiny and snarky.  He's a bad writer.  He's naive.  He's arrogant.  He's even worse than Chuck Klosterman.  
 
 I mean, look up douchebag in the dictionary and there's this picture:
 
   <img src="http://www.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/11/joelstein.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 He's like the Jimmy Fallon of "young, hip" writers.  So whiny...so, so whiny.  
 
 Brian
 
 P.S.  Wait a minute.  Is this an April Fool's joke?  I get it.  Nobody can write the words "other than having joel stein as a columnist, there is little that redeems it" and be serious.  Good one.
Title: Re: LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 01, 2008, 02:35:00 pm
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Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
   
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
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You ENJOY the writing of JOEL STEIN!!??!  Are you serious?  He's the absolute WORST.  So whiny and snarky.  He's a bad writer.  He's naive.  He's arrogant.  He's even worse than Chuck Klosterman.  
 
  [/b]
That's it...Brian Wallace is Joel Stein!!!
 
 
 Mystery solved! Do I get a prize?
Title: Re: LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?
Post by: Venerable Bede on April 01, 2008, 02:43:00 pm
huzzah!  i can now scratch "being the subject of a brian walalce rant" off my bucket list. . .thank you for making me feel extra special by using caps.
Title: Re: LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?
Post by: vansmack on April 01, 2008, 02:52:00 pm
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Originally posted by Arthwys:
  Looks like they stole Onions story from over a month ago.
I'm not sure it's stolen.  The URL is actually titled Onion.htm so I'm guessing it was used with permission of some sort.
Title: Re: LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 01, 2008, 03:11:00 pm
I like Chuck Klosterman.