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“Slate” Unmasks Its (And Everyone Else’s) Music-Writing Plagiarizers

And here we thought the New York story on plastic surgery would be the most fucked up (and entertaining) music-related story we’d encounter this week. Not even close, thanks to a reader of Jody Rosen’s, who informed the Slate/Rolling Stone critic that someone named Mark Williams had copied his Jimmy Buffett piece for the former in a Texas weekly, the Montgomery County Bulletin. After contacting the paper’s editor and receiving a curiously blank reply, Rosen started nosing around some more. Dude, you stole my article [Slate]

 
By Michaelangelo Matos at 5:00 AM on Wed Aug 6 2008
  • Ned Raggett

    (Which in rereading Jody's piece he'd already found! Never mind! SO many instances found and listed that it almost became a blur!)

  • Ned Raggett

    This blogger's politics ain't mine but this post from May 2007 deserves notice -- Williams already had a rep, it seems.

  • Michaelangelo Matos

    haha as soon as this went live I immediately regretted not naming it "The Ballad of a Ladyman."

  • musicquizking

    "Even in my worst moments of unconsciously pilfering my colleagues' phrases I've never rewritten anything quite so baldly as Williams and his editor, Mike Ladyman, seem to be doing on a regular basis."


    Ladyman? Now, that's a GREAT name for a 70's glam band!

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