Cooks Source apologized on its Web site this week for lifting an article by blogger Monica Gaudio, saying that her piece was placed in the magazine "in error."
Web users flooded the magazine's Facebook page, where they took the editor to task for her alleged response to Gaudio. In addition, Facebook users began investigating whether the magazine allegedly infringed copyright in other instances. Cooks Source said on its Web site that it took down its Facebook page, which previously listed the magazine's advertisers.
Cooks Source, a niche food publication in Western New England that set off an Internet outcry by stealing a writer's work and then glibly responding to her complaints, has apologized to the writer, made donations in her name, and shut down their Facebook page after their advertisers received threatening phone calls. Gaudio repeatedly contacted the editor, Judith Griggs, about the publication, and requested that Griggs make a donation to Columbia Journalism School
Well, a publication took, word for word, an article they found on the Internet, and they published it without talking with the author. The big deal was the editor’s response when asked about the situation. Ross Karchner, who works hard at DC Tech Events to keep a good calendar of what’s happening in DC’s amazing and burgeoning tech community, found out that another site was just stripping his stuff and republishing it as part of their content at Awesome DC
