Fox News producers stole my Wake Forest malpractice research

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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can't really steal a news story, once it's in the public domain any one can repeat it. People only give credit if they are feeling generous.

Even I've had a couple of things I've found and posted up taken without credit so for people more active on SM this must be a weekly occurrence.

Likely TPM would have to spend some time researching your claim to be the original source to make sure it is true which means they aren't going to do it.

[–]4y3h5[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yah that's just not true at all, I have no idea where you are going with that.

You can steal a story both literally (copyright infringement) or figuratively (not sourcing your article), which is different from "scooping" someone i.e. you are both chasing the same leads and one of you publishes the story before the other.

All of this is rigorously taught at every J school in the country... and Fox News is literally the #1 media outlet, so they are very well aware of the ethics of journalism. The problem is many journos care more about grifting and career advancement, so we get end up getting things like Libby sucking up to Gregg (a Tucker Carlson producer) by giving him credit for my research (a no-name blogger).

An anon sharing a story on social media is much different, I'm talking about the news industry.