Sunday, November 13, 2005
Expressen's cut and paste section
Nope. Aftonbladet is not the only paper that shows lack of interest in handing out proper sources for their articles.
Johan T Lindwall writes for the Swedish tabloid Expressen. He has found a truly remarkable story. It's even more remarkable when you see that he is using the EXACT SAME SOURCES as a recent story from the Washington Post.
Here is Johan T Lindwall's piece from Expressen on the cell phone bank robber.
And here is the Washington Post's cover of the same thing.
Spot the similarities? Not only do they include quotes that are identical. They also entail the same professional sources (i.e. Fred Desroches, a sociology professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Loudoun County sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell).
Johan T Lindwall writes for the Swedish tabloid Expressen. He has found a truly remarkable story. It's even more remarkable when you see that he is using the EXACT SAME SOURCES as a recent story from the Washington Post.
Here is Johan T Lindwall's piece from Expressen on the cell phone bank robber.
And here is the Washington Post's cover of the same thing.
Spot the similarities? Not only do they include quotes that are identical. They also entail the same professional sources (i.e. Fred Desroches, a sociology professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Loudoun County sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell).