NY POST Hardup Fullashit - Promoting Copyright Abuse

The NY Post has this funny-named goofus for their "music critic."

See, you can't be politically correct unless you find some Paki or Hindu or Asian to discuss British and America. The idea is to be stunningly liberal and give people jobs that make things uncomfortable for others.

EXCEPT these liberals wouldn't go into a pizza parlor if it was called "Wong's" not "Luigi's" and they'd avoid a Kosher deli if the waiters were black. Some stereotypes are more comfy than others, right?

What's Hardup writing about today? Since he (or she) is a hack, it's the old standby: "Commemorate an Anniversary."

Oh, good, "Satisfaction" hit the charts FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK.

But to make it a little more contemporary, note that the embattled Mr. Bill Cosby covered the song. Among others.

Since Hardup is not too bright, and is more concerned with finding some way to punch Bill Cosby, he's ignoring one of the primary rules of journalism: DON'T STEAL.

Would Hardup plagiarize somebody else's article? Then what's the excuse for stealing versions of "Satisfaction," and not checking if the usage is AUTHORIZED?

Nah, nah, Hardup, if GOOTUBE, one of those "we're just a venue, we don't check anything" sites doesn't care, the NY Post has no problem, either.

Anything goes, doesn't it?

Years ago, I wrote a piece about YouTube (not yet owned by Google) for a national magazine. I pointed out that it had great potential to provide people with a way to communicate with each other. They could share their ORIGINAL mini-movies and cartoons and post their editorial opinions.

GOOGLE bought it and turned it into the world's largest venue for illegally using music, movie, TV and sports clips.

Now a writer is paid to write a fucking lazy, hacky piece for a newspaper website? Hardup probably didn't walk this over to the editorial board and say: "All I did was harvest illegal links and write a smarmy sentence or two."

What do professors teach their students in Writing 101? That plagiarism is ok? That typos are fine? That checking sources is unnecessary? That if you've got an ethnic name you'll get one of the few surviving jobs on a newspaper that is badly in debt?