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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wondered what was up when Brennan published her two long pieces and kidneygate didn’t publicize them as he has most other big news in the story — thought it was unlikely kidneygate missed it.  Aaaagh!!![/quote]

Yes, it was obvious that Brennan was talking about kidneygate with her first vague post.

I wish Brennan would just say, I sourced some of this from kidneygate who did a great job assembling this initially, and I accidentally used the screenshots from there. It isn't a big deal to thank someone else. Nobody doubts that Brennan did a lot of work or that Brennan is going through a hard time. [/quote]

I honestly think I’m this case the explanation might be that she did not source them from Kidneygate. These screenshots are floating around a bunch of places  online, and she may have gotten them from elsewhere. If you see a screenshot of a public document 6 places, who do you credit?

That’s why I think kidneygate is being ridiculous. I really don’t think you can assume Brennan read that account or got the screen shots there. She could have grabbed them from another tweet that failed to say where she got them from. A friend might have screen grabbed them and texted them. She may have found them on Reddit. She clearly read through the court docs herself (and was working from a hospital) and I think screengrabbed most of those shots, if not all of them, herself. For kidneygate to argue Brennan relied on his account is silly, and I say that as someone who follows kindneygate and read the Brennan posts. She put more effort, synthesized more details, and was more thorough than anything kidneygate has done.

If anything, this incident is clarifying as to why what Larson did was much worse and why Dawn’s restraint in response laudable. Larson stole Dawn’s words from a private work and sought to profit off of them. Brennan maybe used an unaccredited screenshot if a public document that has been widely circulated, and which she also identified in the source. Extremely different situation![/quote]

Oh, it is extremely different, no argument there. And I also think kidneygate is overreacting. But I think it is highly unlikely that a reporter as meticulous as Summer Brennan didn't read one of the most widely Tweeted accounts laying out all the information, and I also think she should have clarified that the images weren't her own creation. Maybe she got them from Reddit or some other place and didn't realize they were from kidneygate, but in the context of her article, it comes off as though she found and highlighted the relevant portions, and that she created the screenshots, and she didn't. It would not harm her to even say, I found these online, source unknown.

I also agree that Brennan's account is better and more thorough than what anyone else did, but she did obviously stand on the shoulders of others when doing it by virtue of the fact that she used uncredited images pointing out the salient text. [/quote]

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