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Re:Selective Hearing: On the specious new history podcasts by droithomme on Monday January 20, 2020 @11:01PM (#22104215)
Hm, so they would like podcasts to be considered fake news or at least cancelable. As their opening example of problems they cite a podcast which they claim committed plagiarism because the host rehashed her own series of articles on a topic. Is copying from yourself plagiarism? I can see why the fans are skeptical on this claim.

Then they mention the same podcast (I guess they don't have too many examples) failed to cite three sources.

Failed to cite their sources? I wish they would cite their sources but failure to cite puts them in the same bucket as articles published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, etc etc etc, pretty much ALL news media fails to cite their sources. That annoys me. But saying podcasts are bad for not citing sources while not saying anything about major print media is absurd.

Re:Selective Hearing: On the specious new history podcasts by function_seven on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @01:54AM (#22104824)
> As their opening example of problems they cite a podcast which they claim committed plagiarism because the host rehashed her own series of articles on a topic. Is copying from yourself plagiarism?

The Crime Junkie host, Ashley Flowers, was alleged to have plagiarized the work of Cathy Frye, a journalist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette