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| As many of you have seen, a few days ago the Oregonian severed its relationship with longtime beer writer John Foyston. There are two issues here, and I’d like to focus on the second, less-examined one. But first, the background. (Full disclosure: John started covering beer for the Oregonian a couple decades ago, just a bit before I started a column at Willamette Week. I’ve known him all that time and consider him a friend.) Here’s what the O wrote on Wednesday.
In several instances over the past month, Foyston lifted passages from press releases, industry Facebook pages or brewery websites and submitted them under his byline. We also found one example where he copied verbatim an old beer review posted by a contributor to a craft beer site. I’ll let you click through for the full details. The real issue boils down to his decision to lift descriptions about beer from BeerAdvocate. That’s a very serious journalistic breach, and the Oregonian couldn’t overlook it. (Whether John deserve … |
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