Annals of plagiarism: Slate critic sinks his teeth into small Texas weekly

[This post has been updated.]
Jody Rosen, the New York-based music critic of Slate, is dogged, no doubt about it. You'll probably agree with that assessment if you read the longggg post about a small, alternative Texas weekly that apparently ripped off by parts of published stories without attribution.

The tale takes on an almost Homeric feel as Rosen obsessively Googles his way around and tries to get the editor of the weekly to do something (not surprisingly, to little effect). The only sour note in the Slate piece is that Rosen offhandedly lumps together plagiarism with so-called "link journalism", where credit is given (as it invariably is in this blog).

[Update: The above-mentioned doggedness has resulted in the publisher of the weekly, Mark Ladyman, closing down the Montgomery County Bulletin! A story in the Houston Press quotes Ladyman (who called the Slate report "an attention-grabbing hatchet job" and reprints verbatim a fairly weird letter from the offending reporter Mike Williams to Rosen.]