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Behind the News

Tampa Tribune blames blog theft on technical difficulties; bloggers pursue issue

Posted on by Alex

The plot thickens over the Tampa Tribune‘s theft of bloggers’ work:

  • Local bloggers tell me TBO.com may have taken posts from the local blog aggregator TampaBLAB for the last three months. Notable point: bloggers must sign up to TampaBLAB to have excerpts of their blogs posted on that site; TBO.com took blog posts without any such agreement.
Behind the News, Dispatches from the Sunshine State

Florida Gov. Crist denies Neo-Nazi connection, story goes national

Posted on by Alex

Two days ago, I wrote a post about a Florida white supremacist who sent several public officials copies of a anti-Semetic film. One of those officials was Charlie Crist, who seemingly wrote back to the Nazi thanking him for the film and promising to share it with the “people of Florida.”

I cross-posted the blog on the popular progressive blog, Pushing Rope. Well, the story got out. Quick.

First, TBO.com ran the entire post on their website (without Pushing Rope’s consent I might add). Then, the Associated Press (and then Huffington Post) picked up on the story. At least the Associated Press added some new reporting:

The governor’s office, however, said it was an embarrassing mistake. The signature was made by a machine and Crist never saw the letter, said Sterling Ivey, the governor’s press secretary. “We are NOT sharing the DVD with the people of Florida,” Ivey said. “The governor does not support this view. The letter was sent out prior to us reviewing the DVD that was sent.”

But my favorite part is the upset White Reference blog who decries me calling them a bunch of Nazis.

Hats off, by the way, to the Ybor City Stogie who is the first blogger to find out about the letter.