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I had a journalist rip off one of my posts without mentioning me as the source or even that I discovered the story. I found him on Twitter and sent him a message about it, and got no response. I dropped it because it happens so often.

I ended up following him on Twitter. He later published another story that was a slight follow up to my own story and series of articles. This article of his got a lot of attention. In an irony of all ironies, he then tweeted:

"This is why we need old media and journalists, bloggers would never have found or investigated this story" [1]

He had a bunch of other journalists replying in strong agreement.

He was talking about a story that was 90% built on posts that I and other bloggers wrote, and not only took the credit for it but claimed that there is no way non-professional journalists would be able to 'investigate' such a story. I pinged him again with 'oh the irony' and a link to my blog. No response again.

[1] Paraphrasing. He later deleted the tweet

You should have screen-shoted the tweet, and send it along with your original story to some rival online outlet.

Journalists like exposing other such frauds...

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