You may have read about this elsewhere, e.g. Deadspin, but this is such high school level bullshit that I feel like it's worth mentioning.
It seems as though ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd has straight-up plagiarized a comedy bit from The M Zone.
I happened to be listening to Cowherd's show at the time, and remember thinking to myself: "Okay, this isn't the funniest stuff in the world, but these are jokes, and for sports jokes, they're pretty good. I wonder who wrote this. Do they have writers at that radio show? Did Cowherd himself write this? That can't be."
This is, to say the least, unacceptable.
I was driving to work, and I'm not proud of it.
ReplyDeleteThe worst part is the email CC wrote to those dudes which said, in effect, "I was gonna credit you, but now you're whining about it so I'm not." What a baby.
ReplyDeleteI like that he says, "We found a Wonderlic test on the internet." Which is true, technically. It's like he thinks it isn't plagiarism if he mentions where he found it.
ReplyDeleteIn today's radio show, I was happy to find a segment called "Apology...Sort Of."
ReplyDeleteOf course, it turned out to have nothing to do with Colin Cowherd stealing material from another writer. Oh well.