Talon News repeatedly plagiarized content from Fox News, others

[Goldmund]

A ‘reporter’ from Talon News, the conservative outlet which employed disgraced correspondent Jeff Gannon, appears to have repeatedly plagiarized content from other mainstream media publications, including Fox News, Reuters and The New York Times, RAW STORY has learned.

Progressive blogger Ron Brynaert first raised concern about the ‘reporter’s ‘reporting’ Feb. 6 on his blog, “Why Are We Back in Iraq?“, though his findings have received scant attention.

Brynaert documented nearly thirty examples in two articles in which Talon News correspondent Steve Roeder lifted passages, clauses and sentences from stories published by the New York Times, Fox News Channel and Reuters. RAW STORY has found another article in which Roeder lifted whole paragraphs from Fox News.

Roeder’s apparent plagiarism will likely raise new questions over the legitimacy of Talon News. Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, has also noted that Talon often built articles directly from White House press releases.

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[FreedomAngel82]

1. Didn't they also

palagarize against the White House website from speeches?

[Goldmund]

2. No, they were giving an unbiased, unvarnished version...

...of what the White House believed.

According to Gannon Cannon.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Government reports, pictures, documents and such

are not subject to copyright laws, since we the tax payers are the owners.

[BOSSHOG]

3. And Hannity complemented Gannon

on his journalism skills! Sad bunch of humanity.

[Love Bug]

4. Is anyone surprised?

Like a lot of these Drudge wanna-bes, they want all of the privileges of being journalists with none of the responsiblities, such as writing your own copy or checking sources. Kinda like Bush and his obsession with cowboys. All hat and no cattle.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Talon News should get Buckhead to represent them in court

He already lost one case of copyright infringement for Free Republic.