Letter to Romenesko: No credit – again
From JOHN KELLY: I’ve become accustomed Britain’s Daily Mail ripping off The Washington Post, where I work, and throwing in a few “according to The Washington Posts” to make it seem okay. But I can’t find any credit in this story by a “Daily Mail Reporter.”
Oh, here’s where they got it from, the AP.
The nerve of those limeys….
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From the AP:
We’ve alerted the Daily Mail, an AP subscriber, to this latest incident of miscrediting AP content.
Jack Stokes
Manager of Media Relations
The Associated Press
And the uncredited picture of the power plant looks suspiciously like a screenshot from Google Street View. Even a power line on the left side of the photo looks like a clone stamp fail.
I wrote a story for AFP on an Amazonian town that had
rejected tourism. From some cubicle in London, someone at the Mail just put their byline on my story. When I sent an email asking him what he was playing at, the reporter replied that I shouldn’t be so petty to worry over my byline but instead rejoice that the town’s situation was receiving more coverage.