Blogs are often accused of making money off the backs of "real" journalists… 1
The Economist recently reversed that process by lifting content from a blog verbatim. Unfortunately no one bothered to check the veracity of the story, lifting it from http://autoblopnik.com/
I'm sure that in this case Otto had no problem seeing his work "stolen"
The Economist Accidentally Plagiarizes From Parody Car Website
The internet. It’s tricky. One thing you learn at the beginning is to vet your sources. Make sure they’re reliable. That’s something that The Economist, a super legitimate publication apparently hasn’t learned yet. They just took words from a parody site as fact and published them. Whoooops.
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