Shares on a Deadline

Ethan Switch - Sunday, October 6, 2002 - 15:12:12 - print it raw

It would seem that the asserted "high calibre" writing staff at ACP are not beyond the gutteral act of stealing ideas in the face of a deadline. Latest case in point lies on page 27 of issue 40 for 2002 of one of their publications known as Woman's Day. The so-called article, "Stars on the Stock Exchange," covers one and a half pages and reads like the written work of a uni student in a questionable issue of a student magazine, Cogito.

Both pieces spread the word—albeit some many, many months well after its launch—about an ingenious marketing/mailing list tool registered as the Hollywood Stock Exchange. Both samples read hurriedly and without the benefit of an editor's read through. The first and last paragraphs of each read in near identical style and apart from the lengthy repetition employed in the paid version, hard to distinguish.

The two page section in which "Stars on the Stock Exchange," appears on does not feature the byline of a staffer, but the indication that it was "compiled." This posits the theory that the difference between plagarism and compilation lies in the employment status of the writer.

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