The story ran under Kuntzman's byline, without so much as an end note crediting any wire services at all. That's just bad journalism, representing someone else's legwork as your own. But given recent polls that say up to 25 percent of Americans use the Net for their news, pulp-based newspapers would be naive to assume they wouldn't be caught. The temptation to lift a few words here, a design point there is enormous, especially when it's as simple as cutting and pasting, all on the same computer screen. And the tendency to follow the old rule of giving credit where credit is due is rapidly falling out of favor in the process.
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