As the person who originally raised this matter (and repeatedly pointed out that no ill will was behind it), I'll just say this:

I read one article. I then read another article and felt like I was reading basically the same article. I haven't got the time to laboriously type out paragraph after paragraph of text from two print sources, so offered just a couple of examples - far less than was, for example, used to sink Spiderbaby over her Emanuelle piece. Anyone who thinks the suggestion of the p-word was based on a handful of phrases in two sentences has missed the point, for which I apologise. The two articles contain dozens of examples of the same phrases used - all in the same order. Unlike, say, the Wikipedia article on the same subject which bears no relation whatsoever to either printed piece (or indeed my own encyclopedia article that I was researching).

The nature of the topic of this thread, in a print-to-print situation, is that people don't just copy and paste wholesale, they rewrite their source material as they're typing it. So of course a comparison between the two will be less exact than a comparison between text that was just alt-control-C-ed off a webpage.

I'm actually less disappointed by the possible 'influence' of one piece on the other than by the belief that certain parties are above suspicion, which just makes the Spiderbaby situation look like even more of a witch-hunt.

Just my two-penn'eth. Last comment on the subject.

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