How would you feel if you spent a few days writing a really great song, put it up on your website and the next morning someone else was singing it on the radio as though it was their own?
Oh sure, they changed a few words, but it's your idea, your tune, your work.
You'd feel ripped off, most likely.
You'd wonder how they can get away with it. At the very least, you'd wonder why they didn't give you some credit for your work. Well, put yourself in Free Press justice reporter Mike McIntyre's shoes. He's been writing stories lately from courtrooms in
which he's the only news reporter there.
Yet many mornings, he's hearing those same court stories presented by radio stations which never reveal where they read it first -- in the pages of the Free Press.
I got a kick when listening to Marty Gold's show yesterday while discussing radio stations "theft" from the Winnipeg Free Press. His guest?
Scott Taylor.
