Huffington's Copying Machine
Okay, it's one thing to say you want to be the liberal version of the Drudge Report, but it's something else entirely when you simply rip off the look, feel and function of the Drudge Report lock, stock and barrel while presenting it entirely as your own creation.
Can you imagine if a high-profile Conservative website had done this to a high-traffic Liberal internet news destination? There'd be screams of plagiarism, cries of copyright infringement and nasty insinuations that the opposing political side so lacks for ideas of its own that it can't even develop a website without carbon-copying the competition.
Hmmm, now that you mention it . . .
Perhaps this has something to do with Huffington's "somebody else's old is our new" look:
If you can't beat 'em, copy 'em.
Comments
Well, imitation is the highest form of praise...When it's not plagiarism, that is!
Posted by: Ted | November 27, 2005 1:57 AM