Romenesko

Slate
Jody Rosen recently learned that his Jimmy Buffett profile was published in the Montgomery County (Texas) Bulletin under the byline of "Mark Williams." He investigated and discovered that stories lifted from Salon, the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and other publications also appeared under Williams' byline. Rosen asks: "Do the articles in the Montgomery County Bulletin amount to the greatest plagiarism scandal in the annals of American journalism? Perhaps the Bulletin is merely on-trend -- or even ahead of its time. The Drudge Report, the Huffington Post, and Real Clear Politics have made names and money by sifting through RSS feeds ...[The Bulletin] may simply be bringing guerilla-style 21st-century content aggregation to 20th-century print media: publishing the Napster of newspapers."