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As befits a Gotham tabloid, the New York Post is all over this story of foodie plagiarism, with a political twist. The charge is that Cindy McCain, wife of GOP presidential candidate John McCain, lifted recipes verbatim from the Food Network's celebrity chefs and posted them on her husband's campaign website, claiming them as her own. The upshot: The campaign placed all the blame on... an intern. According to the Post: A Food Network spokeswoman declined comment on Recipegate, referring all questions to the McCain campaign. But the network's site clearly warns against digital copyright infringement, a violation of federal law. The McCain campaign immediately discarded the pilfered recipes from the Web site after the story broke, and served up sweet and sour humor while eating crow. "One of our Web interns apparently drafted an unknown Rachael Ray as a senior policy adviser in our department of gourmet. The intern was dealt with swiftly, and the site is down for revision," a spokesman said. "Our apologies to the Food Network." |
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Posted by Kim Pierce @ 3:30 PM Wed, Apr 16, 2008
Yeah, yeah. You know how it is: No one EVER supervises interns, and interns will DO THE DARNDEST THINGS. Something similar happened when Barbara Gollman and I first published our cookbook. Recipes were lifted verbatim without credit and posted on a major medical center's Web site. And I do mean major. A strongly worded letter brought an apology, and they were removed.