Plagiarized Post at “Newsvine” Removed

WHO WAS THE PLAGIARIST AT NBC-OWNED WEBSITE?

by Sharon Rondeau

(Oct. 12, 2012) — At 12:10 p.m. EDT, The Post & Email received notification of the following email exchange between Newsvine, where an article from The Post & Email had been stolen, the author’s name removed, facts changed, and republished, and Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III, who first discovered it this morning:

From: Newsvine Help <newsvinehelp@newsvine.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Subject: Newsvine – Your Comment Has Been Removed
To: “Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III-7054071” <jaghunter1@gmail.com>

Dear Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III-7054071,

A comment of yours has been removed by the author of the post or seed it was written on. Authors are expected to be the moderators of the content contained in their own columns and are charged with keeping comment threads on-topic and free from offensive or otherwise inappropriate comments.

Your comment:

You’ve stolen work done by Managing Editor and Owner Sharon Rondeau who wrote his article for The Post &amp;amp; Email. You stole Editor Rondeau’s name, replacing it for “Scary Eskimo.” Plagiarism is a criminal act regarding the theft of previously published works. How’s about you repost this giving proper attribution! I’ve taken screen shots of this entire theft. I’ve got a print out. All is being forwarded to Post &amp;amp; Email Editor Rondeau.

Walter Francis Fitzpatrick sends!

Location of the discussion your comment was removed from:

http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-1.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/27/14129005-scary-goes-deep-v?commentId=70970995#c70970995

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The Newsvine Team

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to which Fitzpatrick responded at 11:32 a.m. EDT:

Newsvine – Your Comment Has Been Removed‏

From: Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III
Sent: Fri 10/12/12 11:32 AM
To: Newsvine Help (newsvinehelp@newsvine.com)

The named “author” of this work is “Scary Eskimo.” Your writer, the Eskimo clown, lifted word for word an article Managing Editor Sharon Rondeau wrote for the Post & Email online newspaper.

In the lifted article “Scary Eskimo” took his nom de plume replacing it for Editor Rondeau’s name.

For instance, the Eskimo goof states he interview with me.

Wrong: I interviewed with Editor Rondeau.

Now, from what you tell me, Eskimo clown has removed my comment calling out the journalistic thievery.

Put the comment back up or take down your stolen work or give it proper attribution.

Regards,
/s/
Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III
United States Navy Retired

At 11:48 a.m. EDT, a reader sent a link to us which indicated that the copyright-infringing post was removed by the managers of Newsvine, which is operated by NBC News.  http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-1.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/27/14129005-scary-goes-deep

In the stolen article, communications from a U.S. Department of Justice FOIA representative were altered and misrepresented.  Does that constitute “tampering with a government record?”