Reply #14: I don't know, but if you want to prove you have been ripped off [View All]

[Berry Cool]

you have to present the evidence, not just say it's out there on the Internet and tell us we need to go look it up.

And if you really want to be a journalist, you'll work to break into the field. It can be done. Standing outside the world of mainstream journalism, claiming that mainstream journalists have "ripped you off" and whining about how UNFAAAAAIR it is, won't get you professional respect.

At long last, if you had the skill to do this story that you claim has been ripped off whole cloth, you have the skill to do more. Go out and do more and get hired by someone because you have the capability to do it.

One of your problems is you're acting like this is the only precious piece of journalism you had in you and now it's gone. If you're a real journalist, you can keep reporting, and you can do it for someone who'll not only credit you but pay you, and will also protect you from being "ripped off" as you claim you have been.

You want credit? Prove you can play with the big boys. Until you do, as a blogger you will always be suspected of being someone who is only playacting, and while some legit journalism sources may credit you, others will not.

One more question: If your stuff was used by so many other sources, how come you don't know Olbermann used them, and credited them? Oh, and did you come up with 13 incidents, like he did on his blog?