Politico Rips Off The Cable
Somehow Politico‘s Tim Mak missed the Drudge hit awarded to Foreign Policy Magazine’s The Cable blog last night for this story. The news, published on The Cable at 4:21 p.m. Monday, was that U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford was assaulted in Damascus.
By this morning at 9:03 a.m., Politico had published Mak’s story and didn’t bother crediting The Cable’s blogger Josh Rogin, who, understandably, was livid and wrote Mak to complain.
Just moments ago, Politico tucked Rogin and The Cable into its fourth graph.
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