Here's how it works, I get an e-mail in my mailbox, "Hey, can you do this story on the..." I take a look at the press release, call some people on the phone listed as sources. I go to whatever is going on or I talk to the person I'm supposed to be writing about and interview them. I take my notes and tape recorder back, review everything, and write up a draft e-mail the editor, sit back, smoke a J, and get my check in the mail.First off, how the hell do I STEAL an article that no one else has ever written about? Secondly, I can't make up sources or quotes, even if I wanted to, because they use FACT CHECKERS. Yeah, review my notes, check every detail, double-check to make sure every source is real. And there's like dozens of journalists who have done that, not just one in Boston, never even heard of him. Ever see Shattered Glass? Good movie.
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Let's Get Drunk!
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In reply to: When you say "write", do you mean "compose", or do you mean "plagiarize"? How well does the editor know you? Steve, I don't like this guy any more than you do. But I think you're a bit out of line to just randomly accuse him of plagiarizing. Where did that come from?
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In reply to:Ever see Shattered Glass? Good movie. Very good movie.
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This guy is pathetic, he'll take something I do once or he'll blow something out of proportion and nitpick about it on every new post I make.- Made something up about getting a hooker = Everything I say from then on is a lie.- Post a funny rap I found at a site, didn't even say it was mine, just thought it seemed in place = I'm a plagiarizer.- Said I might have gottena loose girl pregnant, then say she wasn't = References to shit about babies even after I said I didn't knock her up.You need a fuckin life, you human colostomy bag
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Why do you keep thinking I pull stuff like that out of my posterior? You need to keep up.
Who wrote this? Not the guy who posted it.
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You made one honest post, where you said:
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I lie a lot, I'm a pathological liar. I just made that up. You think I'd pay a hooker $500 fuckin dollars? Hell no!
...after your Hawaii hooker story. Right after that, in discussing your "skank", you said:
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In all seriousness, I have about 3 hrs. to go before my part starts and I'm certain I can get her in bed, alcohol or no alcohol I know she wants me.
You're like a serial killer who's complaining that people are giving you crap for killing a mouse.
I'll refer you back to this post for a non-exhaustive, non-comprehensive list of your bullshit, white_lies.
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I lie a lot, I'm a pathological liar. I just made that up.I was being sarcastic calling myself a pathological liar. I don't reguarly make up stories and shit like that, in fact that's probably the only time I have.
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If you always lie, then what you are saying now is consistent. If you were being sarcastic when you claimed that you are a pathological liar, it still consistent, since, in your mind, you were lying, even if what you said was the truth.
But now your claim that you were being sarcastic leaves us with a bit of a dilemma that's solved by tracking your shifting view of what the truth is.
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If I were to tell you that my next statement is absolutely the truth... then tell you that my last statement was a lie... would you beleive me?
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I would go into an infinite loop, blue-screen, and reboot.
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In reply to:Why do you keep thinking I pull stuff like that out of my posterior? You need to keep up.Who wrote this? Not the guy who posted it. Sorry. I read this thread before I read the other one....although I don't think you can assume that because he plagiarizes on an anonymous internet message board means he would plagiarize as a journalist...or whatever he is.
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Ok, now I get it. Sorry, I've been painting alot, I think the fumes are getting to me. Thanks for your help though. Now I feel kinda like an ass.
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feeling an ass is good!I'm also drunk
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daisy26, don't worry about it...it's no big deal.Damien> although I don't think you can assume that because he plagiarizes on an anonymous internet message board means he would plagiarize as a journalist...or whatever he is.No, but it raises warning flags...don't be naive. If I were the editor and I had someone working for me who claimed to be a pathological liar, and actually seemed to be one, you can be sure that I'd fact-check the crap out of everything that individual submitted.
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I'm not naive. I was just having one of those give-people-the-benifit-of-the-doubt days. But I think he has moved beyond that privilege.
Myself, I would think these days editors would be fact-checking the hell out everything that comes across their desk.
But you're right, it pays to be cynical.
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it pays to be cynical...where appropriate.
