A sudden spate of outright plagiarism from blogs by the “more mainstream” or “bigger” media seems to be popping up in many disparate locations. Perhaps we’re entering a new phase of the transition, in which the old media believe quoting without attribution is somehow analogous to linking?

I doubt it. I expect the authors and editors who copied are just lazy and rude.

• News.com copying musings about Google [via We Make Money Not Art]
• A print magazine lifts the text and illustration from a blog entry, again without a lick of attribution
• [others as I remember where I've come across them]

Oh, and an amusing splogger writes:

You can stop your plagiarism search now! We have amalgamated all the really great plagiarism definition related information and articles we could find and posted them here.

[link not provided....]