Read this CD post from last Wednesday on North Dakota oil output in July, and then read this news report posted yesterday by TV station KTVQ in Billings, Montana, and notice these similarities (especially the last comparison):
CD: North Dakota pumped another record amount
of crude oil during the month of July at a rate of more than 674,000
barrels per day.
KTVQ: In July, North Dakota pumped a record amount of crude, at a rate of more than 674,000 barrels a day.
CD: The state’s oil production in July was 59% above a year ago.
KTVQ: Compared to a year ago, July's production level was up 59%.
CD: North
Dakota produced 62% more oil than Alaska in July, marking the fifth
consecutive month that North Dakota has out-produced Alaska. The Peace
Garden State surpassed Alaska’s oil production for the first time in
March to become the country’s new No. 2 oil state, behind only Texas
now.
KTVQ: July marked the fifth month in a row that the state of North Dakota produced more oil than Alaska. It was back in March that North Dakota surpassed Alaska's in oil
production for the first time to become America's second biggest oil
state.
CD: North
Dakota continues to lead the nation with the lowest state unemployment
rate at 3 percent in July, and more than five percentage points below the
national average.
KTVQ: North Dakota also continues to lead the nation with the lowest
unemployment rate at just 3 percent - more than five percentage points
below the national average.
Coincidence?
Somebody on this blog is a spy for KTVQ!
ReplyDeletewell the original CD post did reference: "... according to data released today by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources."
ReplyDeletedo ya think they might be ALSO reading that same source?
:-)
Great artists steal. - Steve Jobs
ReplyDelete@ Mark - I think Larrg might be right, or simply when you are both reporting the same narrow set of facts, the reports are going to look similar. I don't see the sort of duplication of phrases that is typical of plagarism.
ReplyDelete@ Tom - shouldn't that be "great artists steal and then self-righteously sue anyone who dares steal from them"?
do ya think they might be ALSO reading that same source?
ReplyDelete:-)
That sounds like something a spy would say! Burn him! :-P
These two sentences are almost identical, and evidence I think of plagiarism:
ReplyDeleteCD: North Dakota continues to lead the nation with the lowest state unemployment rate at 3 percent in July, and more than five percentage points below the national average.
KTVQ: North Dakota also continues to lead the nation with the lowest unemployment rate at just 3 percent - more than five percentage points below the national average.
Note that the state does NOT put out a report, they put out monthly production data, so any commentary about the monthly oil production should be original and unique, which is not the case here.
Also, the state of North Dakota doesn't report anything about its state production compared to Alaska, and when it surpassed Alaska to become No. 2, etc.; I had to research that by myself.
This is 100% plagiarism in my opinion. You'll find dozens of reports on July oil production in ND, and not one of them is using the exact same sentences as my report.
Prof. Perry is right .. there was no narrative from the state, just data.
ReplyDeleteand the comments in the TV post are similar to CD also:
ReplyDelete"I find it odd that 3% of North Dakotans can't find a job."
hmm
Maybe it is time for an expansion of the media output of CD. You could offer periodic video of either "Mark's Musings" or more fact-based reporting with you in front of one of those repeating pattern backdrops that are everywhere with your website all over it.
ReplyDeleteI feel like syndication to control copyright would be appropriate, as evidenced by this very post.
CD is the second Google search result for "North Dakota Oil Output". I have found CD to be in the the top 5 and first page Google search results on several topics. Easy pickings for plagiarists.
ReplyDeleteWhat slobs!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the staffer there went to Harvard where, apparently, cheating is an accepted practice.
ReplyDeleteit IS pretty bad when traditional media starts copying blogs...
ReplyDelete:-)
"Somebody on this blog is a spy for KTVQ!"
ReplyDeleteHmm. Who could it be? This was never a problem before the new kid from NH started posting here. :)
I wouldn't expect TV news reporters to be capable of reporting this type of information on their own, so if they didn't get it from a news service, it's almost certainly plagiarism. :)
ReplyDeleteTV stations are notorious for copying; print journalists refer to the practice of using the morning newspaper as a source for the evening news as "rip and read."
ReplyDeleteNot clear whether cut-and-paste from a blog is an improvement or a decline.
When my sister lived in Idaho, she used "Q-2" to keep up on Eastern Montana news. She says it is better for that than our local Lee newspaper, the Billings Gazette, though that is not saying much. The Gazette is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteNot clear whether cut-and-paste from a blog is an improvement or a decline.
ReplyDeleteFrom THIS blog? An improvement!
Jon Murphy said...
ReplyDeleteSomebody on this blog is a spy for KTVQ!
I can not tell a lie, it wasn't me.
And imitation is the sincerest form of alttery.