Being a two-person operation is probably why they ripped off most if not all of their content.
"Craftier Internet denizens started to research more of Cooks Source's publications, discovering that other articles could be lifted from The Food Network, Martha Stewart, NPR and even Disney."
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/299928
Not just articles, but also photos, discovered with TinEye.
Ouch. Surely there must be a better source than some junk written by a clueless "digital journalist" with the sole purpose of flooding search engines?
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic...
Same primary source regardless of what outlet covers it.
NPR: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/11/05/131091599/the-...
Economist: "A host of Facebook and other denizens have traced over 100 other articles that have appeared in the magazine to The Food Network, NPR, Martha Stewart, Sunset, and others. A Google Docs spreadsheet maintains the list."
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/11/internet_sham...
The list:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmTaIPHPnkSedGFhbHo...
Over 160 entries just from recent issues that people could find copies of.
How would one go about finding the sources en masse from a set of articles? What tools would be used?
I'm all for small businesses and these underdog publications, but this individual comes across as having had it coming and has an awful attitude.
If the interest is there from her audience, then someone will step in to fill that void, and hopefully they'll have more sense when it comes to fairly sourcing content for a new magazine.