Bad journalist gets blocked by ISP after plagiarizing
It’s amazing what my readers remember and go back and follow up on.
Stef Wisniewski posted a comment on a post I made back in March. One where I took on a journalist about bad reporting. Well, he followed up and found out that the “journalist” in question, David Richards, allegedly stole content from the Big Picture Big Sound Website.
My earlier problem with him was when he wrote an article about Windows Vista with a headline claiming that 60% of Vista would be rewritten after the publishing of the article. That was complete hogwash. Vista is pretty darn close to shipping and there was no way that it was 60% (or even 1%) rewritten between March and now.
When you learn a publication is willing to report totally made up crap and stand by it then you shouldn’t be surprised when other sleazy stuff happens too.
More details and real journalism being done by citizens over in the Whirlpool Forums.
Thanks Stef. Australia deserves a better journalist than this guy (what’s laughable is he’s CEO of a magazine. Sigh).
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November 1st, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Seems like Australian journalists are having a bad run.
http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=300
November 2nd, 2006 at 8:40 am
Sorry, Robert, but I can’t see any ref in your article (or any of its linked stories) to a ‘bad journalist’ who has ow been ‘fired after plagiarizing’… did I miss something?
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:15 am
Hap: he wasn’t fired. His ISP turned him off for a week. He’s CEO, so getting him fired isn’t like if he were a lowly reporter. See Stef’s post for more.
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:22 pm
So why does your heading say he got fired?
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Cause I screwed up. I was thinking he SHOULD be fired and my fingers didn’t get the correct message.
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:11 pm
If only your fingers had so much power to wield with a mere wiggle! There are many in the Australian techcommunity who would like to see David Richards go DOWN, big time. His publishing company has the highest staff turnover in the local industry (nobody cares to be around for his tirades of abuse, questionable ethics and self-serving behaviour)!
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Hey Rob check this out
As they say - Every dog has his day - and David Richards appears to be having his (at last) : This appeared on MediaWatch, nationwide across Australia last night and is compulsory viewing:
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2178689.htm
The video is online at http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/vodcast/ Episode 03
“Phantom of the internet”