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The official No on Recall website -- the one with Sharon Davis' diary -- has picked up the latest Peter King column from the L.A. Times op-ed page without labeling it as from the paper. Campaign sites link to favorable press coverage all the time, but this time it's misleading. It appears on the same page of links as Gray Davis' UCLA speech, so someone who doesn't know that King is a Times staffer could mistake the unlabeled column for a campaign product. It's compounded by the credit line: "Peter H. King's twice-weekly column will run through the recall election." Anti-Davis blogger Prestopundit appears to have been taken in. Former Bee staffer Dave Jensen (The Condor) too. Also, isn't there a copyright issue with a campaign grabbing an entire column, not just excerpts and a link?
Update 2:20 p.m.: Answer--yes there is. Times legal counsel Karlene Goller has told the Davis site to take it down. See first comment on this post.
I want to thank Kevin publicly for calling my attention to the problems with the King column. I made the fatal mistake of assuming that King was not employed by either the Times or The Bee after checking only the Bee site. (He was a regular at the Times before joining The Bee.) A complete update and correction will be posted on The Condor. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Kevin.
Posted by: David Jensen at August 29, 2003 10:33 PM
of LA Observed
Hi Kevin -- thanks for the tip. I spoke with Jeremy Thompson, who is responsible for the no-recall and Davis websites. I explained that they cannot use our articles without our permission and told him to take them down.
Posted by: K Goller at August 29, 2003 12:33 PM