But both Common Dreams and this dude's newsletter, while scavenging, fully attribute the articles they reprint. The editorial in question is a thinly disguised plagiarism of Jerome's text. The sophistication of the paraphrase is sophomoric. Like I said in another comment, a 1st year student in, say, History at, say, UCR would be failed for submitting that as a class essay, as well as referred for academic dishonesty and quite likely disciplined by the campus administration.
As for "it's okay to copy from blogs", this here blog takes a scrupulous and stringent approach to source attribution and we would like to see our material accorded the same respect we accord others'. Hey, I explicitly licence my own contributions under a Creative Commons license, but I require attribution. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
Far better that pissing the guy off with a quasi legal threatening letter which he knows you can't follow up on, I would suggest a "nice" letter noting that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but requesting attribution and links back. notes from no w here
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