lsohgirl wrote:
It isn't a big problem with my magazine since we are mainly a research mag. I often supply the background materials, and I
seldom use people outside of my small group - we, as much as possible, try and make certain we credit our sources. I wanted to
contact the guy who had the Milovan and Serena materials on a website, to use in LSoH #30. Nowhere could my wife or I find
a contact for him. So we put his blog info, credited it all over the place, and went with it. We just couldn't find any other info on
the dancing duo.

Now, if I went for more interpretive articles/reviews/etc., with a larger staff, I'm not sure how I'd prevent possible cut and past
plagiarism. I do two issue a year, pretty much alone in many areas, between working a full time job. Jim Clatterbaugh is also
a mainly one man bad in the editorial area (although like my Nancy, I would suspect Marion reads the text for typos). Tim and Donna
Lucas do a regular 6 times a year pub. With just the two of them - Tim editorially and Donna doing the layout, chasing money, and scut work.. The internet and digital age has, in one way, made it a bit easier
to spot plagiarism if you've got the time. Or in the case of Mirek, once informed of what "The Dark Side" was doing, a quest to
expose it.  But one or two people trying to do EVERYTHING, and try to maintain some sort of schedule(I've now done 2-100 pages
issues a year for six years, which still amazes me!). If there are years between issues, it IS easier to fine tune them and research every
aspect of them. Still, I would find it difficult to cull all of it out all the time.....
Everything you write is correct, that is why it is doubly hard to understand why Video Watchdog when aided by folks here and elsewhere with ample research on Lianne's plagiarism chose instead to shoot the messenger(s). Then, pulled their posts. And, now, emit a feeble apology while still sticking a few stray shots at the messengers.