{"id":475,"date":"2008-02-27T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2008-02-27T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:03:45","slug":"newspaper-surf-writer-fired-for-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper Surf Writer Fired For Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Burroughs<\/strong>, the writer of a weekly surf column for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountystar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ventura County Star<\/a><\/strong> has been picking up stories all over the place and running them as his own according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediainfo.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003716116\" target=\"_blank\">Editor &#38; Publisher<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountystar.com\/news\/2008\/feb\/20\/surfing-scene-column-cancelled-because-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">unbylined story<\/a><\/strong>, the Star said evidence of the plagiarism emerged when the paper was contacted by the news director of <strong>Southern California Public Radio<\/strong>, who pointed out that a Jan. 22 column about a proposed highway that would go through a surfing spot included seven paragraphs apparently taken directly from an online version of its story on the highway expansion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When editors at The Star looked into it they found even more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Further investigation by The Star uncovered a Feb. 5 column by Burroughs regarding the theft of a web camera trained on a popular East Coast surfing spot. . . . Much of six paragraphs in that column came from a Jan. 27 story in the <strong>New York Times<\/strong> by <strong>Corey Kilgannon<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Burroughs apparently admitted that he had used the information but said that since he was using &#8220;mostly quotations from other sources that it was not plagiarism.&#8221; The paper said Burroughs had no journalism experience when he was hired. Guess that&#8217;s how newspapers do it these days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.venturacountystar.com\/news\/2008\/feb\/20\/surfing-scene-column-cancelled-because-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ventura County Star<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediainfo.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003716116\" target=\"_blank\">Editor &#38; Publisher<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Burroughs, the writer of a weekly surf column for the Ventura County Star has been picking up stories all over the place and running them as his own according to a story in Editor &#38; Publisher. In an unbylined story, the Star said evidence of the plagiarism emerged when the paper was contacted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}