Skip Lawrence's December 1st blog entry, entitled "Free Speech and Patience" (link here), quotes, without attribution, a 'fictional Presidential speech.'
For those of you who learned to actually cite your quotes, the source of Mr. Lawrence's quotation is the fictional President Andrew Shepherd in "The American President."
For those of you who may quote Mr. Lawrence in the future, be sure to give him the courtesy of properly attributing the quote to him. If you don't, someone may think it is your own writing and you will surely be embarrassed.
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I can't believe Skip, of all people, would not credit the creator of the saying.
In the future, if I happen to quote Skip, which is doubtful, I will not give him credit - unless it demeans him.
Skip quotes a movie and doesn't give credit? I don't agree with his snubbing of Ken's blog, but movies are older than Skip and therefore, "legitmate media"!
For Skip not to credit a movie is ridiculous, the guy looks like the preacher from the movie poltergeist! And why is it that any newspaper will cite Anonymous sources in their articles, but heaven forbid allow anonymous postings to their stories? I am sure that all of the stories that have led from hearing about issues off of the record have never been documented as to whom the unofficial sources were. The fact is that the majority of the postings on the various blog sites are valuable contributions to the discussion. If the Phoenix paid better attention to the blogs and did a little homework on the side, a few more stories may have appeared in their pages ahead of schedule rather than waiting for stories to fall in their laps or someone to write them for the reporters, their circulation may have increased.
You can't tell me that movie review column in the PhoeniRag is original to the author who takes the credit either, LOLOLOL.
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