Prisons are full of “geniuses” 

No idea of the details, but most settlements are so that the accused party doesn’t actually have to admit fault. Most are before things go to trial but they can still be reached during a trial. If the court accepts the agreement before a verdict the accused would still only be an alleged criminal. If the accused…

a woman who won a $4 million judgment against him for allegedly sexually abusing her when she was 16.

Much like Cosby he got away with this for so long in large part due to the fact that he surrounded himself with a group of enablers who helped cover up his misdeeds for him. Studio manager wants to play this woe is me docked pay bullshit now?!? Dude worked for him for 8 years. 8 years! You think he wasn’t an active…

Given her anti-vax stance, it’s a bit hypocritical of her to accept medical care, no? 

1. Find out how much he wants to STFU
2. Put the cheque on a fishing hook and make the twat swim after it

If the Nevermind cover is child pornography then Ann Geddes better watch the fuck out.

It’s like the cover was foreshadowing his future.

“Hey! Wait! I filed a dumb complaint.”

This whole thing feels like it was made up by the Onion

Oh for the sake of fuck.

I guess you can say he lost on Jeopardy

but he was very competent (and as I’ve argued, very good) at the job

Yea originally I read it and thought it was OK. I think the spirit of the question was fine but the phrasing was a bit much. Esp. using the word “crazy” was loaded.

Yes, this is why I’m asking for a new term. It’s neither plagiarism nor original work. “Reporting on reporting” is not the same as “reporting.”

...an investigative report, BuzzFeed News uncovered that Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson wrote numerous articles with plagiarized material

What is really bad about this is Snope use to be a good authority on if content was real or not and for years the tin foil hat MAGA idiots would says it’s “fake news”.  They are going to point to this news as proof even though the plagiarized content wasn’t false, just stolen 

I don’t come from a journalism background, and I know that plagiarism is wrong.

I’m standing, and crying. Beautiful, Michael.