Props to the Blogosphere: Attribution in the MSM

Lindsay mentions sticky-fingers at the WSJ and FT, but this reminds me of the never-resolved issue of the NYT publishing an item that had previously appeared on the blog Mediacrity. Fishbowl wrote about it this summer, but here’s a recap: on June 26, 2005, Mediacrity sussed out and posted Jim Romenesko‘s 2003 salary ($152,163, plus $17,024 in benefits and deferred compensation), which garnered some attention, including from prominent bloggers Andrew