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Fox 5 plagerizes its own history for its website

jal41

jal41

Looks like Fox 5 has pulled a Jayson Blair and Ann Coulter and plagerized content for their website.

In the "About Us" section on Fox 5's website, they have placed a history about the station. Only problem is it is almost an exact copy of the WAGA-TV article from the Wikipedia. (The Wikipedia article seems to have been updated since.) And Fox 5 doesn't cite it either.

Wikipedia article

Fox 5 About Us

The Fox 5 version boasts that they proudly preempted CBS programs during its time as a CBS affilaite.

They could get in trouble for this, not because of the ariticle (Wikipedia content is open-licensed and not protected by copyright), but because WAGA is a news operation, and if they are copying from others without citing their sources, it could look increadibly bad for the operation.
 
What are they trying to do, make people think that
45 years as a CBS affiliate weren't worth it? True,
Channel 5 pre-empted CBS almost as much as Channel
2 pre-empted NBC (5 didn't even carry Walter Cronkite
at one point in the mid-'60s), but it sounds like the
station's ashamed of ever having been with a network
other than Fox.

Given that Channel 5 was once Atlanta's home for
Lucy, Gleason, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore,
Archie Bunker, Ed Sullivan, 60 Minutes, and who-knows-how many
more class acts, I think the station should be proud
of its days with CBS.
 
jal41 said:
They could get in trouble for this, not because of the ariticle (Wikipedia content is open-licensed and not protected by copyright), but because WAGA is a news operation, and if they are copying from others without citing their sources, it could look increadibly bad for the operation.
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Could be a WAGA staffer wrote the bio for their web site, then added it to Wikipedia.
 
jal41 said:
In the "About Us" section on Fox 5's website, they have placed a history about the station. Only problem is it is almost an exact copy of the WAGA-TV article from the Wikipedia. (The Wikipedia article seems to have been updated since.) And Fox 5 doesn't cite it either.
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This isn't the first time a major broadcaster misappropriated material from an internet source -- when Nickelodeon ran "The Rugrats Movie" a couple of years back, for the squeezed credits, they merely cut and pasted the movie's entry from IMDB and played the credits as they were, including a.k.a.'s and uncredited notations. All to the letter.
 
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