Celtic Fan Site Accuses The Record Of Stealing A Story From Them.

Earlier in the week, I did something I’ve never done before. I used the entire text (just about, I deleted a big, irrelevant section) of an article from the mainstream media in a piece I had written.

The article was written by Keith Jackson.

But not only did I acknowledge the fact that I had done so, but that was the very point of the piece. The article was so ridiculous and reality-bending that I wrote it up as a Keith Jackass piece and published it more or less as he had written it.

The ultimate spoof of an article which could have been written as one.

Tonight though, the Celtic fan website Vital Celtic, run by a good friend of mine, Paddy Sinat, has accused The Daily Record of stealing one of its articles, and not in the jokey way that I did during the week, to make a point, but to claim credit for it as their own.

The Record tried to disguise this by making it a “6 of the best” piece but they started with a very familiar section on Moritz Jenz which does look suspiciously like something lifted from somewhere else … naughty, naughty boys.

I wonder, if we looked hard enough, if we’d not find the other five segments of their article elsewhere?

Not that I’d accuse them of anything like that of course …

Because there are words for that. Unprofessional. Lazy.

Oh yeah, and what’s that other one that they use in journalism school as the Number One sin in the Do’s and Don’ts?

Oh yes, that’s right. Plagiarism.

Yet this is not the first time that the mainstream media has stood accused of having done this.

These people forget that we monitor every word they write.

And so we know every word that they don’t write, and thus every word that they steal.

The media has become famous for cut-and-paste garbage.

They do it now without even thinking of it. The next time you read an original, well written and well researched piece in our sports press will be the first time in a long time.