Flutterby™! : On news sourcing

Feminisnt: NPR's On the Media and Sarah Abdurrahman violated Creative Commons licensing, stole from my blog without attribution:

Updated after NPR responded by snidely mocking me on their web site and refusing to so much as apologize. If they would prefer to handle this as an internet flame war, I'll give them one Google will remember until the end of time.]

Attribution for news and such like this is hard, but I've always found the smarmy tone of "On The Media" annoying, and I really think that news organizations need to start being more honest about their sourcing. There was another AP "Social Security is doooomed! Dooomed, I tell you! Dooooomed!" press release rewrite on the wires yesterday without clear indication of which policy think tank SuperPAC sourced it, and a bunch of Romney/Obama back-and-forthing recently has clearly been dueling press releases: If news organizations want to be taken seriously they need to start releasing sourcing information.