While this is the first example I've seen of a story getting picked up by a major online news source and being misattributed in this way, the underlying practice is quite common on hip hop news sites. Actually, much worse things are going on elsewhere. Of course, hip hop bloggers like Hashim Warren have long pointed to such shoddy practices. Hip hop news services need to recognize that it's time to step up their game. Hungry young professionals are on the move and old guys like me are also trying to break in. Not only are we bringing higher standards to the game, but we're going to be reporting on your lack of professionalism.
In the case of AllHipHop.com, the problem could be alleviated fairly easily but it would reveal how much of their news (like most news) is based on newswire reports and press releases, plus stuff written elsewhere. But a newspaper would state that in the byline and an article such as the one attributed to Nolan Strong would probably not even list his name. Although I dig the way blogging and online publishing in general has opened up the news game, the shakeout that will occur in the next five years will reveal that old school professionalism is a still necessary foundation for real news gathering and reporting.
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Article comments
1 - Cycho
Yo,Suge. Yeah I'm talkin' to you ya bitch. You should be in fuckin' jail!
Everyone keeps askin', who killed Pac?
Well I think we both know who the killer is you fuckin faget ass bitch.
The facts are there. Even pac's mom said that you killed him. You lucky you got fuckin' body guards or I'd come to ya house and blow ya fuckin' brains out you fat ass, dick suckin, motha fuckin' pussy! You gon' get yours. Believe dat!
2 - Cycho
FUCKIN' MURDERER!
3 - Black Wall Street
Suge's a pussy. We all know that. Niggaz shot his ass in MIA but we gon' finish the job in CA. A Judge recently froze the bitch's shit, now we gon' melt the muthafucka. I'm ridin' on Suge for 'Pac, for the DPG and for any nigga Suge done did wrong. Harry O, E, my nigga S. Suge's a pussy. Let us catch you Suge, you ain't livin' long. And Jimmy gon' get stuck again - I just wanna thank my 10-a-key homie Young Buck for the cut. We gon' cut Suge next, and maybe that snitch 50. He said he gon' pay up some G's so we might let his ass leave. Nah, we gon' kill 50 too.
U'z aint a gangsta, nigga. Wearing pink and all that jazz, you're a disgrace nigga.
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