Last June, while covering the botched announcement of Annette Bosworth's Senate campaign, I noticed that someone on Bosworth's fake-publicity team had plagiarized one of my blog posts. After a little trek into the Internet weeds, I've discovered that author is a fake.
The plagiarized article in question and two others flogging Bosworth's medical practice came from "CrisDaniels," who (like Pat Powers) purports to be a journalist. He claims to be from Sioux Falls.
"CrisDaniels" has just two other posts, both posted within a week of his plagiarism of my work... the same week that Chad Haber got really excited about posting marketing materials about his wife and himself. One post talks about Miles Tate, an addiction patient Team Bosworth managed to plant on KELO to talk down personal responsibility and the Affordable Care Act. The other talks about the use of magnets to treat depression, a treatment Bosworth offers at her clinic. Writing by "CrisDaniels" sounds very much like the sort of sloppy copy Chad Haber has churned out on multiple venues to promote his wife and himself.
This Bosworth booster didn't just steal my writing; he stole his own photo.
Meet Chris Travis, pastor and author from Manhattan. His online photos include the exact photo that some Bosworth promoter stole to create the illusion of a Sioux Falls "journalist" giving positive press to an impending Senate candidate.
Enough coyness: add the tone, the time frame, and the trickiness, and you get pretty good odds that "CrisDaniels" is really Chad Haber... just as the "sfogas" who posted the first notice of Bosworth's candidacy was likely not just Samuel Fogas working on his own initiative but a young intern carrying out the orders of his boss Chad Haber as part of a barely bush-league marketing campaign.
This kind of plagiarism and deceit is why the Bosworth-Haber campaign gets my attention. Haber and Bosworth have a history of strange statements and shady dealings that make Bosworth's Senate campaign stink of scam. "CrisDaniels" won't investigate Haber and Bosworth; real Sioux Falls journalists should.
I marvel at you putting all this together. Craziness!
Great job, Corey. Once again demonstrating how and why the SD lame street media is dead. The faculties of South Dakota journalism schools should turn in their credentials for they are failing us.
But, but, but, Randall Beck just professed today he would be finding other ways to make a difference.
First, I'm sorry that someone saw fit to steal your work, without even giving the credit you deserve.
Great job in calling this guy out, now what? Sue? Hunt him down?
Keep digging you might find more.
Sue? Not my style... at least not on my budget. Author Chris Travis may have a larger legal budget... but I wonder: what is the law on appropriating someone else's face? Is that identity theft? Impersonation? Merely a copyright violation?
Coincidentally, working at Preventive Health Strategies as recently as this summer was Rachelle Reeves Daniels. Reeves Daniels labels her PHS gig "previous" on her Linkedin page. Coincidentally.
Coincidentally, working at Preventive Health Strategies as recently as this summer was Rachelle Reeves Daniels. Daniels.
Ms. Reeves Daniels labels her PHS gig "previous" on her Linkedin page. Coincidentally.
Not your style? Not in your budget?
Do you mean the court system is only open to those that have money?
Last time I checked the court system is open to all people, and all causes. If your work has been stolen, then by all means, go after him. Don't let money (or the lack of it) stand in your way
Tell it to Dan Lederman, EmCee.
True, MC, the court system is open to all people. But waging a civil lawsuit takes money and time which I find better spent on this venue.
Even if you won a civil lawsuit how would damages be determined? Maybe I'm wrong but I see this website as a labor of love rather than a big money maker for its owners.