[lbo-talk] when in doubt, plagiarize!

[H. Curtiss Leung]

I was reading Kelley and linked to him before the war started; his stuff
was opinion and commentary rather than reportage.  But when the bombs started 
to fall he switched into a "grab-and-post-everything-as-fast-as-I-can!" mode.
I was amazed that he was able to do it, but he was doing it, and didn't try
to present it as anything but links to mainstream news sites, and stuff
he picked up from Stratfor (and some of his readers pillored him for relying
on it because they thought Stratfor was untrustworthy.)  He attributed and
linked to just about everything.

I don't know if he did it deliberately to up traffic to his site, but that's
what it did.  Hitting the refresh button on your browser when you visited the
site had the same appeal that watching a teletype must have had.

I never thought he was doing anything but trying to collate existing
materials, and he said so himself at 

	http://www.agonist.org/archives/000783.html (3/21)

	11:55 CST I'm blogging via PDA, bear with me. I really do wish I could 

	cite all the sources here. If you're upset about it as some people are, 

	please understand the time constraints I am under. Please also note that 

	some of the updates are copied and pasted others are not. Just consider 

	it all from another news source unless I say otherwise. I'm not interested 

	in pissing anyone off here. I'm just trying to provide a service. 

Frankly, I found it impossible to keep up with everything he threw on the
page.  Given the good old fog o' war, it wasn't worth trying to do anyway.
But since he had already said he was collating from other sources, the Wired 
story seems to be a smear.


> 
> <http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58346,00.html>
> 
> Wired news - 02:00 AM Apr. 07, 2003 PT
> 
> Like any number of webloggers trying to make their mark with 
> commentary on the war in Iraq, Sean-Paul Kelley knew geography and 
> career experience didn't favor him.