Really? Really?!?!?
Imagine my surprise to find stories I wrote for the Whidbey Examiner now bearing the byline of another writer.
I was doing a little research (emphasis on “little”) by looking back at articles I had written about last year’s Coupeville High School boys’ basketball team prior to tonight’s game in La Conner, which will pit the Wolves against former teammate Taylor Ebersole.
Lo and behold, to my great amazement, I find that Vincent Nattress, another freelancer at the time, is now credited online for stories that are unmistakably mine.
I mean, come on, the second story even uses my patented, Barbara Ballard-baiting two exclamation points in the headline.
I’ve never met Mr. Nattress, but have read some of his stuff and found it well-written. He’s entirely too professional to fall prey to the lure of the double exclamation point.
Not me!!
Since I found these byline-jackings in a mere two minutes, one wonders what I would find if I spent a whole day on the Examiner web site. Have all my stories been stolen, even the few that were actually paid for?
The mind boggles. And then I remember I’m dealing with the evil corporate slack-jaws from Moosejaw, and anything’s possible.
The stories:
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/news/168049176.html
http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/news/168050306.html
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