Did Gawker Rip Off The Washington Post? Yep.

“The more I toggled between my editor’s e-mail and the eight-paragraph Gawker item, the angrier I got, and the more disenchanted I became with the journalism business.”

So wrote Ian Shapira in today’s Washington Post, describing his reaction to Gawker’s write-up of his recent story on a consultant who explains Millennials to Gen-Xers and Boomers. At first he felt flattered; then, ripped off. He’s right to feel that way. He was.