The LA Times Reads FanHouse

• FreeDarko

  +8

  I would love to know who cast a negative for this. I thought you people lived for the MSM ripping off blogs. AND IT'S ABOUT A KOBE JOKE, no less. That's the beer equivalent of finding porn in a hamburger, right?

  Posted 10/22/2007 [reply] [flag]

• BullsBlogger

  +5

  I did, because of what you said about 'you people'.

  Personally, I think bloggers are in general a bit too antsy about their 'original' ideas when it comes to plagarism accusation. Not that it's never happened (because in general the MSM thinks the internet is free to them), but it seems too serious a claim to be thrown around as much as it does.
  

  Maybe that attitude is because I rarely do anything original on my blog so I don't worry about theft. ::shrug::

  Posted 10/22/2007 [reply] [flag]

• FreeDarko

  +5

  With the MSM, there's two issues:

  1. Not properly attributing/linking/sourcing "finds," which happens all the time. I've gotten mad about this in the past, but these days I really don't care. 

  2. Accusations of semi-plagarism. I agree that these are usually wishful thinking on bloggers' parts. However, in this case you've got a pretty distinct concept reproduced more or less verbatim on the LA Times website. If you think that claim doesn't hold water, fine, but address that instead of the general trend it's a part of. 

  Posted 10/22/2007 [reply] [flag]

• BullsBlogger

  +3

  heh, looks like it's found elsewhere too

  Posted 10/22/2007 [reply] [flag]

• FreeDarko

  +2

  Maybe it's not as original an idea as I'd thought.

  Does anyone know when LakersNation put this up? 

  Posted 10/22/2007 [reply] [flag]

  • BullsBlogger

    +1

    I'd ask them, and ask the L.A. Times for that matter. They have editors and you have Steve Case.

    Posted 10/23/2007 [reply] [flag]

• chone

  +3

  This is getting weird.

  Posted 10/22/2007 [reply] [flag]

• JaketheSnake

  +5

  Obviously there's only one rational answer to why everyone is doing this:

  Kobe's a terrorist.

  (That's said in jest, of course.) 

  Posted 10/23/2007 [reply] [flag]

  • Crucifictorious

    +5

    Really, guys, there's only one rational answer behind this:

    Kobe's in Al Qaeda.

    (Kidding, clearly).

    (What--if the LA Times and Laker Nation can do it, why can't a lowly BallHype commenter?) 

    Posted 10/23/2007 [reply] [flag]

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Published 10/22/2007 by TheHype at NBA Basketball and Other Unrelatedness
... and I doubt anyone would think it s serious and not satire (you know, using it to make a new statement, not just copying the same thing) Grrr. You re on Notice LA Times. Check out Shoals metaphorical dagger in the face of the Times over at FanHouse in this matter , big ups! Your html hyperlinks gals and gents: Last couple of paragraphs in ...

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Published 10/22/2007 by Kurt at Forum Blue And Gold
... again this year. • Call them Gretzky’s or whatever, but I like the idea of counting a second assist in some cases. If Kobe drives the lane and kicks out to an open Fisher who makes a quick pass around the arc to Radmanovic for a wide open three, shouldn’t Kobe (or whomever) get some credit for starting that play? That said, it’s a judgment call thing to me, there are second assists that are meaningless (both in hockey and basketball). • Is the LA Times borrowing ideas from bloggers?