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About The Media Bloggers Association
The Media Bloggers Association is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting, protecting and educating its members; supporting the development of "blogging" or "citizen journalism" as a distinct form of media; and helping to extend the power of the press, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails, to every citizen.
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Obama has used Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s speech excerpts MORE THAN ONCE. The problem is, he has been passing them off as his own. Should Obama supporters be voting for Patrick? When Oprah said “what’s the big deal?” when James Frey made things up in his nonfiction memoir, she was wrong and ignorant. It is not okay, and certainly not a good model for our children, to say crediting sources is not important and that crowd rallying language is above plagiarism.