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Proper Accreditation

My apologies to a journalist, whose yesterday’s column I shamelessly ripped off without attribution in a blog post four days ago.

When this journalist quotes from my blog, she has the good manners to cite it as “an attorney blog”; I should have the same courtesy when I write something that she will write three days later.

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This entry was posted by Mark Bennett on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 9:16 pm and is filed under blawgs, journalistic ethics?. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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6 Responses to “Proper Accreditation”

  1. Robert Guest says:
    19 February 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Admit it Mark. You are Lisa Falkenberg.

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  2. Mark Bennett says:
    19 February 2008 at 10:11 pm

    If I am Lisa Falkenberg, and anonymous C is AHCL, and AHCL is me, then AHCL is Lisa Falkenberg.

    Who’d've guessed?

    Reply
  3. john says:
    19 February 2008 at 11:36 pm

    I just looked at the column and then at the comments,and to my surprise saw a picture of the great Rumpole of the Bailey the finest barrister ever to have practised law.
    Regards John Gibson

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  4. A Harris County Lawyer says:
    20 February 2008 at 3:36 am

    You really should post a link to this in the comments to her article.

    Reply
  5. Rorschach says:
    20 February 2008 at 3:38 am

    Admit it! you have a time machine!

    Reply
  6. Ron in Houston says:
    20 February 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Well at least they give you the dignity of calling it an “attorney blog.”

    Some of your readers would not doubt refer to it as a “pansy assed liberal” blog.

    Reply

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