Thursday, December 4, 2008

COS Talk Show Host Posts AP Stories on Blog

Richard Randall, local right wing windbag (via KVOR morning radio), maintains a blog here on blogger. 

What you may ask, is the point of a blog? Some people use blogs to share their thoughts and perspectives. Some radio hosts uses blogs to post thoughts about their shows or to keep listeners up to date about issues that may not come up on the radio show. Others use the blog as a marketing tool to attract a broader audience. All of those uses are valid and good.

Mr. Randall uses his blog to post stories from the AP, without attribution, for the most part.

Other stories come from other places -- primarily conservative websites. I know this by judicious use of Google. When Mr. Randall posts stories from other sources he does not include attribution or back links to the original source. Occasionally Mr. Randall posts a paragraph or two that he has deigned to write himself, but that does not happen often.

Richard Randall describes himself as a journalist. I'd describe him as something else.

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