The P.B.E P.P. Cornered.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 355, 24 September 1889, Page 3

The P.B.E P.P. Cornered.

The P.B. Evening Pastepot has been given a hauling over the coals for its cribbing propensities, but we do nqt think any chastisement will have ranch weight in that quarter, any more than firing pellets at a rhinocerous. It is quite amusing to our own staff to note the number of paragraphs which have originated in the Standard, being, after they have gone the rounds, retailed ao’ain in the P.8.E.P.P., but we have not the

slightest objection. Nor need the 'Napier News be sb sore upon the point, because the Napier papers are kept on the tables of the Gisborne public reading room, where q great many people hare the opportunity of reading the news sometimes more than q week before it is cribbed. This is what the News has to say upon the subject!-It has now become quite a common practice with some journalists in New Zealand to abstract original matter from other papers, and insert it in their own journals without

acknowledging its source. It is to be regretted that such a custom’ decs prevail, for it is certainly not true journalism, arid is-1 a breach of journalistic etiquette. To publish® an article 'of paragraph, without stating® whence it came, is what may be character-® isei as literary larceny,for it is really al case of stealing other people's brains, so tel speak. Nof only that, but it is a manifest® injustice to the writer and the paper, frotil which the matter is taken. Times out o 9 number original paragraphs have bean copied! from the News, and their authorship notl mentioned, but we have refrained from] commenting on the matter. Journals wlioaal political leanings are sitpilar tq ours generally] acknowledge the source of. their information, I but it is a most noticeable fact that papers! who are" opposed to us in political matters, although they copy copiously, never, or at least vfiry seldom, deign to mention the News as being the journal from Which their ‘ pars ’ were taken. Ths practice has obtained so much of late that we thought it would be just as well to give the offenders a rap over the nucU-s, and to mention one journal in particular—the Poverty Bay Herald-whiobj in a recent issue contained no less than eight locals taken from the columns of the News. In the last copy to band there appears several more. The gentleman who presides over the scissors and paste department of the P.B. Herald wilt please cut this article out and affix it in the lining of bis bead ornament.