The Virtues of Parasitism

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By Keith Kloor
Apr 16, 2009 5:17 PMNov 20, 2019 4:51 AM

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Attention all fellow bloggy bottom-feeders, Slate's Jack Shafer has got your back:

Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications' work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition.

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