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Plagiarism? Sports section, Irish Times/Irish Independent

  • 04-05-2015 9:00am
    #1
    laoisman11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if this is the right forum for this; mods, please feel free to move if necessary....

    I was checking various news sources to try to see what happened Laois hurlers yesterday, and in doing so, it was impossible not to notice the similarities between the reports of the game on the Irish Times vs the Irish Independent on-line sites. For example, the two final paragraphs differ by one word.....

    Links to the reports:
    Irish Times
    Irish Independent

    Has anyone noticed this before? Is it common practice?


Comments

  • #2
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,548 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    I'd imagine that neither paper had a reporter at the game, and both are using the same freelance/local paper source.


  • #3
    Osmosis Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,130 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    Journalists will often write reports for more than one publication, they just word them slightly differently. Probably what's happened here.


  • #4
    donalh087
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭donalh087


    Or a good club level PR will send the same report out to all papers,


  • #5
    laoisman11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭laoisman11


    Thanks for the replies, they make sense.

    I realize that the importance of the game was fairly low on the grand scheme of things, but it would have been nice to be able to get different opinions on the events that transpired........


  • #6
    IRE60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭IRE60


    Its a local scribe selling his/her copy to the various papers. It's a very common practice especially in the less attended events. Its the same as many court reports, one person sitting in court filing to the various news organisations.

    Its only when the events make the big time - G. Dwyer, people not vacating their houses in South Dublin et al - then the news media would send their own people.


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