COWHERDGATE UPDATE: COWHERD RESPONDS
Cowherd’s response to MZone’s piece on him using their material without credit: “GET OVER IT.” Combining this with the latest “complimentary” issue of the high-grade toilet paper that is ESPN: The Magazine soiling our mailbox (damn that Insider subscription,) we feel a new round of anti-WWL bile roiling up in our gullet.
A more productive way of objecting to ESPN using bloggers’ material as theirs would be emailing the ESPN Ombudsman, George Solomon; a quixotic gesture, sure, but someday a windmill’s going to get the red-ass beatdown it so sorely deserves, so do it anway.
Charge that windmill.
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DevilGrad says:
As sent:
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Dear Mr. Solomon:
Putting aside for the moment whether ESPN Radio is staffed with journalists, is it company policy to allow its on-air talent to plagiarize comedy bits from the internet and then tell the author to “GET OVER IT” because he is “WHINING” about having his material taken without attribution?
I know you never would have stood for this at the Post.
Take care,
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http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/2006/03/colin-cowherditsomewhereelsefirst.html
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:36 pm
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bitterhorn says:
Disney sucks.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:39 pm
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The Conscience of a Nation says:
I feel the righteous anger over this that only a person procrastinating over a thesis can feel. What a tool.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
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Russ says:
Anybody else think they’re eventually gonna find Solomon’s body washed up somewhere? He seems to be getting more frustrated with each passing column.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:52 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
He does it from DC as a mere formality on ESPN, so he’ll keep cashing the checks.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
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parker91 says:
I wonder if Solomon should exchange the Ombud column for his Sunday column at the WP, and see if anyone at the WWL notices. Highly unlikely, but just a thought.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:07 pm
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Bill says:
Mike Barnicle was fired from the Boston Globe for ripping off Jimmy Buffet. Why should ESPN be any different?
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:12 pm
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DevilGrad says:
The entire fracas is now linked on Romenesko’s blog, meaning that, to the extent Cowherd thinks of himself as a journalist, he has now been embarrassed in front of his peers.
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:18 pm
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DCIrish says:
Not sure we could live without Solomon’s Sunday Wash Post column. It’s usually filled with great insight like:
“The Nationals need an owner.”
“Maryland’s basketball team had a tough year.”
“Dan Snyder spends alot of money on free agents.”
He’s terrible.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:49 pm
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DevilGrad says:
He’s not a great writer, but he hired a great staff.
BTW, Cowherd has been Farked.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:52 pm
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NewAZTiger says:
I’d have a large chunk of change from ESPN.
Plagarism, and Assbaggery.
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:59 pm
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Rush says:
For any part I might I have played in this entire fiasco, I offer this…an official apology
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:30 pm
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Rush says:
For some reason I don’t think that link is working so here it is again.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm
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LD says:
There’s been a petition up on this dude for a while now. He made fun of Eddie Guerrerro right after his death, so the first 13,770 or so signatures had to do with that, now it’s up to a hundred more today for the M Zone thing.
HERE
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
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Miami Bass War says:
Well, if it’s any consolation to the good folks at M Zone, their side of the story is now being linked to by Jim Romenesko’s very well-read media blog (see the left-hand column).
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:19 pm
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NewAZTiger says:
No reason not to pile on.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
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RSC Partners, Inc. » Blog Archive » Bloggers vs. Mainstream Media: Cowherd-it-Somewhere-else says:
[...] Cowherd may have been innocent enough in his using material that was emailed to him, but as a journalist he should know what it feels like to have his material stolen.� In the world of a cut-and-paste internet, a little due diligence on Google could tell you whether credit is due.� Telling the author of material to bugger off will only turn the blogs–and public opinion–against you. [...]
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:39 pm
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Bullfrog says:
Cowherd’s retort in one of those MZone emails has been driving me fucking nuts since I read it – what is the fucking difference between reading blogs and message boards (which he seems to associate with being a loser) and listening to sportstalk radio (which I presume he thinks makes one a champ)? God.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:55 pm
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Brian @ mgoblog says:
what is the fucking difference between reading blogs and message boards (which he seems to associate with being a loser) and listening to sportstalk radio
The former implies you can read and write; the latter implies you can’t.
March 23rd, 2006 at 5:57 pm
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Lance says:
loved the part about ESPN the magazine….i feel exactly the same when it hits my mailbox and goes straight to the trash….and every time i also say “damn insider subscription”
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:24 pm
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Newspaper Hack says:
As a journalist, I say that Cowherd should be publicly flogged and put in the the pillory for all to laugh and throw rotten food at. What a little bitch. It’s no shame to share info you heard elsewhere, just credit the source.
I guess that means I can just rehash every goddamn thing Jim Rome says and post it and it’s OK, right? What a chode. Prick. Asshole. God, that makes me angry. Time to get another drink, fire up the PS2, and pretend this never happened.
March 24th, 2006 at 4:16 am
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T. Kyle King says:
Free The M Zone!
March 24th, 2006 at 10:35 am
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JacketDan says:
I’ve only listed to Cowherd once and that was when he gave an impression of my 3 year old nephew trying to read Orson’s “People we Hate Article.”
Personally I think all of you picking on the obviously mentally handicapped like this is despicable. Colin has obviously done more for the rights of retards to be on radio than Tendafoot did for raising awareness about two legged elephants.
March 24th, 2006 at 11:25 am
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Jason Vise says:
O.K I got Cowheards MZone article in about 10 e-mails BEFORE I heard it on his show. I always here radio shows reading e-mails and off blog sites. You guys have no life if your complaining about this stuff. Intellectual property! Please, a research paper is intellectual property. I doubt the MZone even came up with it. One of the questions is and old OSU Michigan jokes that my father heard in the 80’s so shut your wininng.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:39 am
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