Jody Rosen
The Great Plagiarizer of the 21st Century, The Bulletin, Is Dead
And it appears The Bulletin, the alt-weekly newspaper in Montgomery County in Texas that repeatedly repurposed other publications' works, is apparently no more.
The paper's publisher, Mike Ladyman, tells The Houston Press' Hair Balls blog: “It’s dead right now. I’m not bringing out another issue. I’ll just close it up.”
Slate's Plagiarism Accusations Followed by Alt-Weekly's Web Site Shut Down
Yesterday Media Mob (and just about every other English language media and journalism Web site) wrote about Slate critic Jody Rosen's investigation into The Montgomery County Bulletin's egregious and repeated plagiarism of his and other journalists' works for their small-circulation alt-weekly.
Today, The Bulletin is no more. At least on the Web, where the paper's site has been stripped down to a simple directory of files. Coincidence? Probably not. Then again, it might also just be the world's worst site redesign.
Conason! Blumenthal! Jody Rosen! They've All Been Plagiarized by The Bulletin
The Slate music critic Jody Rosen has a simple question: "In purely statistical terms, do the articles in the Montgomery County Bulletin amount to the greatest plagiarism scandal in the annals of American journalism?"
You might ask: The Bulletin? What's that? Also, why is Jody Rosen participating in media reporting?
Well, the story begins like this: Mr. Rosen was tipped a few weeks ago by a reader that a Jimmy Buffett profile he wrote in 2007 had been copied and repurposed under a different byline for an alt-weekly in Texas called the Bulletin earlier this year. Mr. Rosen had never heard of it, but after a little research, he discovered why. read more »
A Recipe for Instant Nostalgia Cooked Up by Irving and Bing
