There's a discusion going on (based on the Bent Society Blog referenced below) as well as the Bad Science Blog feeling quite miffed (to say the least) that journalists on the Independent and the Times have snooked in and culled all their hard graft on topics local and dear to them without attributing these blogs as their source....
http://onlinejournalismresearch.ning.com/forum/topics/bent-society-the-origin-of?page=1&commentId=2401909%3AComment%3A2404&x=1Bent Society is a Blog set up a year ago by six undercover criminologists in Nottingham specifically to discuss the local manifestations of 'bent' or antisocial activity:
http://bentsocietyblog.blogspot.com/The Bad Science peeve is discussed on onlinejournalism research as well as on its own home page:
http://www.badscience.net/2008/12/rather-brilliantly-i-have-been-plagiarised-by-the-times/I'd love to know whether journalists are beginning to evaluate the environment that prevents them from thinking more carefully of the damage they might be doing....?
