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Here’s a curious “irony” - a few weeks after publishing an editorial opining:
By retiring, Streit has done the only thing he could do to uphold the school’s broader commitment to personal integrity.
and also that:
That is what this comes down to, of course— intellectual dishonesty
the Repository’s editor Jeff Gauger finds himself being called on the carpet over the Rep’s “adaptation” of an iphone parody ad that the Sun tabloid in England had put out earlier last year.
Below is the Rep’s new ad that Gauger was pleased to unveil as “the must have mobile device of 2010″ on March 4th:
Here is the original Sun video:
The back and forth on it can be found in these posts:
Fitz & Jen: Canton Repository’s Sincerest form of flattery
Editor’s Extra: Version 2.0:The must-have mobile device of 2010
Fitz & Jenn: ‘Canton Repository’: It’s not copying without credit, it’s irony!
We live in a society where copying the written word has become so easy that it’s hard to see what is really wrong with it. And yet, copying a video is not as simple as a few mouse clicks. You have to shoot the footage, edit it, get a voice over. You’re recreating the content, not creating a digital copy of the content. So why slavishly copy the original script? It could have been a clever extension of the original concept instead of a lackluster imitation.