Over time, a synergy has developed between the city's only daily newspaper-- The Miami Herald-- and bloggers who fill the void for niche audiences. We can't cover great performances at the Performing Arsh Center, for instance, but we can cover what the paper won't: insider deals that crams as many people as possible into Florida while shifting the considerable costs of inadequate infrastructure onto the backs of unsuspecting taxpayers.
We don't cover celebrities who frequent South Beach and our other international destinations, but we do point out the many ways that our hit-and-run culture damages what is valuable to the quality of life of residents.
Miami Herald reporters love reading the blogs, sifting for perspectives and even stories. On the other hand, Herald executives have struggled with how to cope with blogs that cut and paste stories from the paper's pages. Recently, the Herald demanded that the South Florida Daily Blog cease the practice.
The Herald, on the other hand, increasingly cites blogs in the printed and web editions of the paper, but it doesn't also provide links to the cited blogs. That is arrogant and wrong.
It happened again today, in the report that taxpayers are going to be on the hook for property taxes -- millions of dollars a year-- for the new Marlin's stadium: just one cost among many overlooked by city and county commissioners who paved the way for the sweetest deal in professional sports. The Herald cites a web/blogger called "Field of Schemes" that tracks public finance fiascos that occur everywhere on behalf of insiders and lobbyists who commandeer taxpayers through elected officials. From time to time, the Herald quotes Eyeonmiami, too.
When the Miami Herald cites blogs, the paper should provide the url (in the print edition) and a live link in the online edition so Herald readers can click through to blogs it cites. It only seems fair: if the Herald is going to take a hard stand against cutting and pasting articles it has paid for, that the Herald provide live links to the blogs and bloggers who it quotes. If you are going to quote the blogs, show respect.
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It's ironic the Herald would now take this stand, when it has run entire blog posts, not given the link, not made it part of the Herald archives and NOT paid the blogger for using their work. They can't have it both ways.
Chuck Rabin from the Herald is the most egregious offender when it comes to ripping off blogs. I've caught him several times blatantly ripping me off and not crediting me, I wrote about it here with the IP addresses to prove it.
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they dont care. we give them free content. some blogs actually make deals with the herald to take their content.
I agree wholeheartedly with Straw Buyer. The Herald and particularly Chuck Rabin, steals a lot of stories from the blogs.
Sadly, Chuck is lazy; and sadly, the Herald has a conflict of interest. They will not report anything bad about Regalado and Sarnoff until the casino deal for the Herald is passed and secure.
For those of you who are bloggers and have "caught" the Herald "stealing" your stuff, have you written to the people in charge to complain? That's what I would do.
But, I'm not sure that a reporter following up on a newsworthy blog post is "stealing." As I learned years ago, you can't copyright facts.
So if Eye on Miami has a story that no one else in Miami has, and it ends up in the Herald, that means someone at the Herald thinks the story is news. It is common courtesy to give credit and many Herald reporters do. Some don't.
But, I've never had that problem. When I broke the Miami Dade salaries story a year ago, the Herald generously provided a link and drove tens of thousands of readers to my blog.
Bottom line: If you're not getting credit, take it up with the editors.
The biggest offenders, however, are TV stations. Ch 10 recently did a series of stories on county take home cars that I know for a fat originated with a post on Eye on Miami.
However, as long as we're on the subject of "stealing", here's an entire 9,000 word story that was cut and pasted from Rolling Stone magazine that was posted a few days ago right here at Eye on Miami.
People in glass houses....?
Hopefully, Rolling Stone won't get an email reporting you, EoM!
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Not EOM....2 bloggers independent.
On the Rolling Stone article, there is a link. That's the point.
Anon....didn't stop me from being reported to the Herald by a fellow blogger.
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