Thursday 11 March 2010

Is the Mail now plagiarising user comments from IMDB?

Remember Mail Online hack Chris Johnson, who wrote an article about Dick Van Dyke's appearance at an LA stage production of Mary Poppins, which had suspicious similarities to an article from an American website?

Today, he's been given the task of writing an article about Alice Eve, who appeared at the premiere of her new film She's Out of My League in a:

low-cut pink dress to show off the figure that wins her so many admirers in the movie

The headline refers to her:

her leading lady attributes.

Yes, really.

But then there's Johnson's synopsis of the film's plot:

In the film Alice plays Molly, a beautiful events planner who has a chance encounter with geeky airport security guard Kirk (Baruchel).

Kirk is smitten by Molly, but his friends point out to him that he doesn't have a chance, because he is only rated as a '5' and Molly is definitely a '10'.

However, Molly has something else in mind, because she has found that Kirk is sweet, amusing, honest, and different from the men she has been dating.

Googling the second of those sentences and the very same words pop up somewhere else - in a review on IMDB by the-movie-guy:

Molly (Alice Eve) is a sexy event planner who is delayed by a sleazy airport security guard. Another security guard, Kirk (Jay Baruchel) comes to her rescue, and passes her through to catch her plane...

Kirk is smitten by Molly, but his friends point out to him that he doesn't have a chance, because he is only rated as a "5" and Molly is definitely a "10"...

However, Molly has something else in mind, because she has found that Kirk is sweet, amusing, honest, and different from the men she has been dating.

That means there are now four Mail articles which appear to have more than a hint of plagiarism about them.

When will anyone bring them to account?

1 comment:

  1. God I hate these kind of articles. The Mail goes with a total non-story like 'Female Celebrity Continues to Exist' or something, then puts up a few pictures of said female celebrity looking attractive. Then the DM readers descend like flying fucking monkeys and make extremely judgmental comments about every aspect of the celebrity's appearance. Very mean they are, too.

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