Clooney misattribution.

March 15, 2006 3:54 PM

this post about an article by George Clooney was not actually written by George Clooney.
posted by delmoi to MetaFilter-Related at 3:54 PM (10 comments total)

well he's still damn sexy.
posted by chunking express at 4:01 PM on March 15, 2006

Wow. What a cruddy thing to do. Nice find delmoi.
posted by bardic at 4:03 PM on March 15, 2006

Big deal, those are still things he said, and gave permission for AH to use them. This MeTa post is more deceptive since you're trying to imply somebody was outright lying.

"He doesn't object to the quotes," says Stan Rosenfield, Clooney's rep. "He said those things and those are his views. Arianna asked for permission to use the quotes and he gave it to her. What he didn't give permission for was the use of his quotes without source attributions to make it appear that he wrote a blog for her site."
posted by tula at 4:09 PM on March 15, 2006

this post about an article by George Clooney was not actually written by George Clooney

Wait, George Clooney isn't WCityMike?

Are you sure?
posted by dersins at 4:12 PM on March 15, 2006

Whatever.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:14 PM on March 15, 2006

CITIZEN JOURNALISM DOES NOT MAKE ERRORS.

REALITY ITSELF IS IN ERROR.
posted by keswick at 4:21 PM on March 15, 2006

Maybe this will teach us all to quit posting single link op-eds. Well, probably not.
posted by Roger Dodger at 4:21 PM on March 15, 2006

So we're calling out non-self-links now?
posted by Space Coyote at 4:23 PM on March 15, 2006

Why didn't you just post this in the thread? Is there some sort of full moon or something today? Also delmoi, email to your profile address bounces.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:32 PM on March 15, 2006

I don't know what you're saying delmoi, so I'm going to close this.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:35 PM on March 15, 2006