"News 2" website, 11/23/2005 6:00:50 PM: "WFMY News 2 found a list of restaurants that will be doing all the hardwork (sic) for 'Turkey Day', all you have to do is pull up a seat." (emphasis added)

Looks like this is where they found it.

Hey, it's just a restaurant listing, but it was published by another news organization, seems like you might credit the people who did the work when you run it...but at least it's not like there's a pattern here...

Good thing Gina Katzmark doesn't read blogs, er, "diaries on the Internet," this kind of thing might give her heartburn on Thanksgiving.

Comments

[John Robinson]

Her predecessor and I first got to know each other years ago when I pointed out to him startingly similarities between our stories and their reports on the TV station's Web site. (Our's published first, of course.) He was generally successful in teaching his Web folks about copyright infringement.

I've made the same request of Ms. Katzmark. We'll see. It's hardly an uncommon practice that short of a lawsuit probably won't stop.

[Beth]

I think we should stop mentioning these things on the blogs, and just let it go... Then purposely feed them some interesting stories... See if we can Spam WFMY??? What do you say... Can you imagine a headline like...

"Mayor of Greensboro gets sex change. Film at a 11" ????

[Roch101]

Word-for-word right down to the punctuation. (They dropped JW's Restaurant when alphabetizing.) WMFY does begin their list by writing: "WFMY News 2 found a list of restaurants that will be doing all the hardwork [sic] for 'Turkey Day'..." -- They just don't say where they found it.

[Roch101]

Completely and totaly unrelated to this discussion:

China House Restaurant at 2104 Phillips Avenue got a 77, a "C" on its health inspection.

Three Winston-Salem Restaurants got "A's": Subway, 8 West Third Street, Taco Bell, 255 Summit Point Lanne and Dairy Queen, 1425 Silas Creek Parkway.

Just publicly available facts. Maybe I should start a "Restaurant Grade Report."

[Lenslinger]

By no means do I claim to understand the inner machinations of my worthy competitors, but I do know this: Local broadcast outlets have long held the blogosphere and other unaffiliated websites in contempt, deriding them as 'internet diaries' and baseless, pajama-clad blatherings. Their dismissal of this data unless it's disseminated through their lofty towers is a dangerous prejudice, considering the fact if you banned local newspapers from TV newsrooms, the evening newscast would consist of little more than endless weather updates and frothy anchor crosstalk.

Trust me on that one.

[Don Moore]

This is no worse that WGHP's PLUMBER STORY, right from the pages of the News & Record to the FOX8 Screen.....

However, by far the worst offender has to be Dusty Dunn of AM1070, who reads letters to the Greensboro News & Record as letters to him. The News & Record should employ Dusty as he provides a service - reading the News & Record verbatim.

Back before Dan Rather replaced Uncle Walter, reporters reported and got news the old fashioned way. Today, we have celebrities, who salary ranges have directly resulted in the reduction of news room staffs. They rarely have beats and rely far too much on other media and press releases.

[Patrick Eakes]

Perhaps it is time for one of our mainstream info outlets to report on WFMY's regular uncredited thefts.

Whaddaya say, JR?

[Joe Murphy]

Looks like WFMY removed the article from their web site.

[Neill McNeill]

This kind of thing would never happen at the Triad's News Leader. We generate 100 percent of our content ourselves with no help from the local papers.

[Ed Cone]

The comment above is not from Neill McNeill. Please refrain from posting things using other people's names -- if you want to do parody, that's great, but make it clear that it's not real, don't sign in as the guy and use his email. Thnx.