KO RIPPED OFF MY RESEARCH and did not credit it... for the 2nd time!!! [View All]

[Julius Civitatus]

This is not cool at all. Keith Olbermann ripped off my research, claimed it was his.

Yesterday KO had "his" report on fake terror alerts again, the same one he first issued last winter. This report "borrows," just about all the research leg work we did on this matter. We parsed news items between 2001 and 2004 to come to the conclussions of our study: most terror alerts did not respond to real "threats", but political reasons.

The only part of KO report that was truly his, was teh terror alter of 2005. We did all this research and posted it in my blog 2 years ago this month. Only about 10 or 15% of the Countdown report was truly his.

This is the second time Olbermann "borrows" all my research for his show without even mentioning the source. I mean, it's almost verbatim, item by item, what I posted in my blog:

http://juliusblog.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_juliusblog_archive.html#109156476570482138

Not cool, people. Not cool at all.

:-(

Last winter, when he first aired "his" report without a mere mention of our study, I email Keith Olbermann about it. I very politely explained to him this was not right. I even gave him the benefit of the doubt, saying maybe one of his staffers stole the research from my site and claimed it was his own to gain some favor.

I explained I don't mind him using my stuff as long as he was honest and mentioned where he got all this work. We did all the leg work here, lots and lots of time parsing through the news from 2001 to 2004, and posted tons of research and findings on the fake terror alerts.

He never even replied to me.