Blast From the Past
Killing time at the computer this morning, I happened to come across “The Plagiarist” and his new internet podium. What a treat! You know your opinions are well respected when the title sponsor of the web site has to put a disclaimer before each post you make:
Views and comments expressed in posts do not necessarily reflect the views of River City Sports.
If that’s not funny enough, check out this item from the grand master of the oblivious. In true ‘Plagiarist’ form, I have decided not to link to the web site or the post. After all, he hates the ‘mainstream media.’ I think that’s the way he would have wanted it.
Anyway, it’s about Corey Koskie. ‘The Plagiarist’s’ words are in BOLD, because he’s an out-spoken and controversial guy who needs a disclaimer on all of the outrageous things he says:
On the baseball front, Team Canada manager Ernie Whitt confirmed yesterday that Anola, Manitoba’s Corey Koskie, who hasn’t played a game in anger since July 5, 2006, would indeed be one of the 28 players named Tuesday to Team Canada’s preliminary roster for the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
Great. Sounds like a nice story. Of course, I don’t believe that you talked to Ernie Whitt or Koskie. And I’m pretty sure a phone call to the latter would confirm that.
We first reported this story here at (website name removed) at 10:03 a.m. CDT on Sunday, Feb. 22. Later in the day, a story on Koskie’s good fortune appeared on the St. Paul Pioneer Press’s website and the next day the story appeared at cbc.ca. Of course, cbc.ca — which only occasionally gets things right — wouldn’t credit (website name removed).
Couple things.
1. The time stamp on the Pioneer Press blog Twins Now reads February 22, 2009 8:24 AM. Um…that would be just under two hours before your stamp. Unless, of course, you believe reporters would change the time stamp of their stories to appear to be first. One would hope they would at least change to to an earlier time.
2. CBC did get the source right.
3. At this point you might be wondering why I sometimes do not give written credit to a story or source. That is because I link the source. Trust me, if you’ve ever met any blog people, they would take the page view over unlinked credit every time. Back to the show…
The mainstream media continues to act despicably. One can only hope the Harper government one day shuts down the CBC, a $1 billion-plus waste of taxpayers money. We live in a time when private broadcasters — the people in this country who pay their own way — are struggling to survive and yet we toss public money down that big CBC toilet.
Not only do we know where political leanings lie, we now know that he hates ‘mainstream media’ for acting despicably. The same mainstream media that employed him all those years. I seem to remember a weekly noon-hour hit on the Valerie Pringle show several years back. Not to mention some regular radio commentary. What national broadcaster were those on again?
Along those lines, if ‘The Plagerist’ is going to call out the “despicable” CBC for not giving his website credit for the story, then shouldn’t he call himself out for not giving credit to the Pioneer Press on his ‘original’ Feb. 22 story (which does not cite the newspaper as I type this)?
This is too easy.
