LAist: When It Rains, It Pours

weston deboer

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:34:49 -0800

It broke when I posted it on obeygiant.com! The first blog to post about it was omgposters, then mcdevzone, then thelistnerd. Well thats what the pings say anyways.

Zach Behrens

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:50:35 -0800

The story broke on Shepard's website before a press release was sent out by Yosi Sergant who is the California Media Advisor at California for Barack Obama. It did not come from LAO (nor was the story even close to being "lifted"), it did not come from LA Taco and the idiom "When It Rains, It Pours" did not come from Norman Lear's project, Declare Yourself. As Jeremy said, we decided to schedule it in the morning rather than right away. If we published first, would the claim of "lifting" be sent over to them? Please, stop bringing random negative energy to the comment section. If you have a problem, bring it to me via an e-mailing. xoxo

Harold M

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:02:34 -0800

Oops, sorry for the double comment, reading it twice makes me realize it's pointless anyway, who knows where these things come first. I am curious though to know in general when this "story" broke.

Harold M

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:58:31 -0800

Both you and Kevin got it from www.lataco.com which was the first to report Shep's endorsement. It came over cityfeeds sometime last night around 6, at least that's the first I ever saw of it.

Harold M

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:58:19 -0800

Both you and Kevin got it from www.lataco.com which was the first to report Shep's endorsement. It came over cityfeeds sometime last night around 6, at least that's the first I ever saw of it.

roxyboom

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:56:22 -0800

Did you steal the title from the Declare Yourself blog as well? http://declareyourselfnow.blogspot.com/2008/01/when-it-rains-it-pours.html

Jeremy Oberstein

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:54:22 -0800

Pin, I wrote this post last night, long before the LA Observed piece went live. It only appeared on LAist this morning so it could get full exposure. I can only speak for myself and, in so doing, I will say that I have never "lifted" a post from another site. Where applicable, I have credited sources either through hyperlinks or [Credit] or "quotes". There are noticeable differences between the LA Observed piece, which everyone can see here, and my story. They go into more detail about the actual poster and the art of Fairey, while I explore the politics of the endorsement.

PinLA

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:23:30 -0800

Can the LAist writers please credit the source material of the posts, if that is the case, PLEASE? This one is almost verbatim from LAObserved. Seriously, other sites reference that certain news or tidbits came from other places (with link to the orig story), and put their own spin on it. It is not shameful to do, but lifting whole posts and passing them as your own is. This has happened a few times before, seeing almost the exact same thing a day earlier on other LA-centric sites and then seeing it appear here. I am not talking about general news, but iitems that are ONLY one other place, and that appear earlier. Just credit, that is all.